CNN's Clarissa Ward details her crew being held captive in Darfur by a militia group

CNN's main world analogous Clarissa Ward shared nan harrowing acquisition she and her unit knowledgeable arsenic they were held captive by a militia group successful Darfur. 

"We had travel to Darfur to study connected nan world’s worst humanitarian crisis, ne'er intending to go portion of nan story. But months of readying came isolated successful moments erstwhile we were detained by a militia led by nan man everyone called nan general," Ward wrote Wednesday.

Ward explained really they were en way to a municipality successful Sudan to screen nan ongoing humanitarian situation that has unfolded during nan country's civilian war, thing she stressed has been overshadowed in nan media by Ukraine's warfare pinch Russia and Israel's warfare pinch Hamas. 

"According to nan UN, much than 10 cardinal group person been displaced successful nan violence, almost a 4th of Sudan’s population. More than 26 cardinal group — complete 3 times nan organization of New York City — look acute hunger," she told readers. 

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CNN's main world analogous Clarissa Ward shared her harrowing acquisition being held captive by a militia group successful Darfur. ( Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for Concordia Summit)

The CNN unit was granted support to participate nan war-torn area aft months of negotiations. But upon their presence astatine a planned gathering point, alternatively of uncovering their host, they recovered nan militia group. 

"They had 2 Toyota Land Cruiser pickup trucks, weighed down pinch rocket propelled grenades and dense instrumentality guns," Ward wrote. "Our driver was led disconnected successful chains to nan municipality jail. For 3 hours we were interrogated, 1 by one, successful a small, windowless room. About 8 men asked nan questions. ‘Why are you here?’ ‘Who sent you here?’ ‘Who gave you support to beryllium here?’ We answered their questions but sewage nary accusation successful return: who these men were aliases what they wanted pinch us."

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Ward aimed to put a spotlight connected nan humanitarian situation occurring successful Sudan arsenic nan state is engulfed successful a civilian war.  (MARTIN BERTRAND/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images)

The militants past ordered Ward's unit and their driver to travel them connected a ungraded road.

"It was astatine this constituent that nan wide abruptly stopped his conveyance and started shouting astatine us, earlier shooting his gun. The goal, presumably, to scare us. It worked," Ward said. 

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After they pulled complete again, Ward attempted to plead straight to nan wide to fto them go. 

"'Please, we are very frightened,' I told them successful halting Arabic. ‘I americium a mother. I person 3 small boys.’ The wide looked disinterested, but I could spot nan information chief’s look soften. ‘Don’t beryllium frightened, don’t beryllium frightened,’ he assured me, ‘We are quality beings,’" Ward recalled. "For nan adjacent 48 hours, we were held nether equipped defender by nan general, nan information main and astir a twelve soldiers, immoderate who looked nary older than 14. Our detention was spent retired successful nan open, underneath acacia trees. As nan only woman, and pinch nary backstage abstraction to relieve myself, I constricted my h2o and nutrient intake. Sleep, erstwhile it came, was a mercy, a reprieve from nan clawing consciousness of panic astatine not knowing erstwhile I would beryllium capable to spot my children again."

Ward said she and her unit were interrogated for hours by nan militia group suspecting they were spies.  (Arnold Jerocki/Getty Images for Warner Bros. Discovery)

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After being distant for respective hours, nan wide and nan information main returned to present bully news to nan CNN crew. 

"It has been decided you will beryllium released tomorrow,' they told us. ‘We thought you were spies but now you tin spell home,’" Ward wrote. "A activity of alleviation collapsed done my body. There were smiles and handshakes pinch our captors. We posed awkwardly for a photograph astatine nan separator of nan mat that had been our makeshift prison."

"Our ordeal was over. We were unharmed and soon to return home. The fearfulness and interest quickly replaced by a emotion of bitter disappointment, of failure. We ne'er made it to Tawila. Never managed to talk to nan group successful Darfur whose lives person been chewed up by this vicious civil war. Untold stories that nan world whitethorn ne'er hear," she added.