{"id":2358581,"date":"2024-10-23T21:06:33","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T01:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/who-sent-you-here-cnns-clarissa-ward-detained-by-militia-group-amid-vicious-civil-war-in-sudan\/"},"modified":"2024-10-23T21:08:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T01:08:46","slug":"who-sent-you-here-cnns-clarissa-ward-detained-by-militia-group-amid-vicious-civil-war-in-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/who-sent-you-here-cnns-clarissa-ward-detained-by-militia-group-amid-vicious-civil-war-in-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Who Sent You Here?&#8217;: CNN&#8217;s Clarissa Ward Detained by Militia Group Amid Vicious Civil War in Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwho-sent-you-here-cnns-clarissa-ward-detained-by-militia-group-amid-vicious-civil-war-in-sudan%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2358581&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A CNN reporter, \u2064Clarissa Ward, recounted a harrowing experience where her crew was held captive by armed men in North Darfur while covering the\u2064 ongoing civil war in Sudan. The team, consisting of Ward, a camera operator,\u200d and a\u2063 producer, had intended to document the crisis affecting around 10 million displaced individuals. Upon their \u2063arrival, they encountered a rival militia instead of the welcoming group, leading to their\u2064 interrogation \u200dand confinement. During their detention, they faced threats, including a moment when one captor fired a weapon, causing\u2063 panic \u200damong the crew.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">captors demanded\u200b contact information<\/a> for the crew&#8217;s partners, implying they could make calls from\u200c afar, which added to the tension.\u2064 As their captivity approached an end, the militia ultimately \u200bdecided to release them\u200c under the assumption that they \u2063were\u200b not spies. Ward\u2062 expressed feelings of disappointment \u200dand failure for not being able to share the untold stories of\u2062 those suffering \u2063in Darfur.<\/p>\n<p>The broader context of the situation highlights that the civil war in Sudan has been ongoing since April 2023, leading to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/over-50-nyc-dems-pen-letter-to-biden-begging-for-help-with-migrant-crisis\/\" title=\"50+ NYC Dems plead with Biden for assistance on migrant crisis.\">significant humanitarian crises<\/a>, with severe famine and destruction in various regions, particularly in\u200c Khartoum. The conflict has\u200b seen little international\u200d intervention and continues to destabilize the region, raising alarms about the risks\u200d of a failed state. Reports indicate that healthcare \u200csystems\u200c in \u2062Sudan \u200dhave collapsed, and millions\u200b face \u200dstarvation, underscoring the urgent need for global\u200b attention and action.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> <script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>A CNN reporter said her crew was held by armed men for about two days as they were reporting on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/at-least-78-killed-in-stampede-at-yemen-charity-event\/\" title=\"At least 78 killed in stampede at Yemen charity event\">deadly civil war<\/a> in Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>Clarissa Ward wrote about the ordeal on <a href=\"https:\/\/amp.cnn.com\/cnn\/2024\/10\/23\/africa\/darfur-sudan-crisis-militia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a>, saying her team had gone to North Darfur to chronicle the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/strategic-disaster-uk-gives-islands-holding-secret-us-military-base\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">crisis<\/a> taking place, in which an estimated 10 million people have been displaced.<\/p>\n<p>Plans had been made, but when she and her team arrived at the agreed-upon meeting place, instead of the group that had invited her, a rival militia was waiting. After the driver was taken away in chains and jailed, she wrote, the CNN team &mdash; a camera operator, producer and her &mdash; were interrogated.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Two weeks ago, our team was held captive by a militia in Darfur. As a journalist, one never wants to become the story. But I wanted to write this because in some ways our experience tells a bigger story of the complexities of the situation in Darfur and the challenges of getting&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Clarissa Ward (@clarissaward) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/clarissaward\/status\/1849065313435889900?\">October 23, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;About eight men asked the questions. &lsquo;Why are you here?&rsquo; &lsquo;Who sent you here?&rsquo; &lsquo;Who gave you permission to be here?&rsquo;&rdquo; she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Ordered to go where the militia group led them, everything stopped for no reason as a man referred to as &ldquo;the general&rdquo; berated them.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There was a moment of panic &mdash; were they going to shoot us?&rdquo; Ward wrote, adding that &ldquo;the general&rdquo; took a rifle and fired it, but not in their direction.<\/p>\n<p>After being taken to a place where they were held, phone numbers for each crew member&rsquo;s partner were demanded. She later learned calls to their homes were made from a place thousands of miles away.<\/p>\n<p>One of the captors, referred to as &ldquo;the security chief,&rdquo; told Ward, &ldquo;The world doesn&rsquo;t see us. The help doesn&rsquo;t come.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Ward noted that as their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wsj-reporter-sentenced-16-years-prison-employer-calls-disgraceful-sham-conviction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">captivity<\/a> neared its end, the CNN crew was forced to remove their belongings from a vehicle, which they feared meant they were being handed over to others. Instead, they were told they could leave.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;&rsquo;It has been decided you will be released tomorrow,&rsquo; they told us. &lsquo;We thought you were spies but now you can go home,&rsquo;&rdquo; Ward wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Our ordeal was over. We were unharmed and soon to return home. The fear and worry quickly replaced by a feeling of bitter disappointment, of failure. We never made it to Tawila. Never managed to talk to the people in Darfur whose lives have been chewed up by this vicious civil war. Untold stories that the world may never hear,&rdquo; she wrote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#120276;&#120307;&#120319;&#120310;&#120304;&#120302; | The civil war and humanitarian crisis continues in Sudan with no assistance or intervention from global organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Sudan&rsquo;s brutal conflict has been on-going for nearly 20-months, with no outside attention. It now faces the world&rsquo;s worst famine in forty years. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xDe1siK2DW\">pic.twitter.com\/xDe1siK2DW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The African Perspective (@theafricanptv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theafricanptv\/status\/1849055098783096853?\">October 23, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>As noted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2024\/10\/15\/sudan-war-weapons-uae-iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Post<\/a> Sudan&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/stimulus-bill-gives-americans-600-puts-aside-700-million-sudan-gets-worse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">civil war<\/a> began in April 2023, pitting the Rapid Support Forces against the Sudanese government. Talks to end the war have produced nothing. The Post report said each side is being supported by outside nations, with Iran backing the government and the United Arab Emirates backing the rebels.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Having a country that is sinking into not just violence and instability but potentially a failed state is something that creates enormous risks &hellip; for regional stability,&rdquo; U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan Tom Perriello said. &ldquo;Every country in the region stands to lose far more by letting the country collapse than they might gain from pursuing narrow interests.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Last month, a report from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/article\/crisis-sudan-war-famine-and-failing-global-response\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Council on Foreign Relations<\/a> summed up the situation: &ldquo;Fighting appears to be only escalating across all eighteen of Sudan&rsquo;s states. Its capital, Khartoum, is almost entirely in ruin.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Health-care systems have collapsed, attacks on women and girls are rampant, and famine is setting in. UN officials have warned that more than two million Sudanese are at risk of death by starvation this fall,&rdquo; the report said.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\">  <\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> <label>* Name<\/label> <br \/> <input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> <\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> <label>* <\/label> <br \/> <input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> <\/div>\n<p> <label>* Message<\/label> <br \/> <textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> <input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\">  <\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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Clarissa Ward detailed their experience on CNN, explaining that they traveled to North Darfur to document the crisis affecting around 10 million displaced individuals. Upon arriving at a prearranged meeting spot, they were confronted not by their expected contacts but by a rival militia. After their driver was captured and imprisoned, Ward and her crew\u2014comprising a camera operator and producer\u2014were interrogated. She described how eight men questioned them about their presence and intentions. During this tense situation, one of the captors fired a rifle but fortunately not at them. They were later asked for contact information of family members, with calls made from far away locations. As their captivity ended, they feared being handed over to another group but were ultimately told they could leave after being mistaken for spies. Although relieved to be unharmed and returning home, Ward expressed disappointment over not reaching Tawila or speaking with those affected by the brutal conflict in Darfur\u2014stories that may never be shared with the world.<\/p>\n<p>The civil war in Sudan has persisted for nearly 20 months without significant international intervention or assistance amid worsening humanitarian conditions including famine risks affecting millions of people as reported recently<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2358582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Sudan-Captivity.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[34944,43575,9373,43576,24524],"class_list":["post-2358581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-civil-war","tag-clarissa-ward","tag-cnn","tag-militia-group","tag-sudan"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Sudan-Captivity.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2358581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2358582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2358581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2358581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2358581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}