CNN team details time held captive by RSF militia in darfur

CNN’s Clarissa Ward has revealed she and her team were held captive by a RSF militia for two days while reporting in Darfur earlier this month.
The veteran correspondent, 44, traveled to Sudan to report on the civil war that has sparked a massive humanitarian crisis, with more than 26 million facing famine.
But just hours after arriving in North Darfur, Ward and her team were detained by a RSF militia led by by a man who went by ‘the general,’ as she wrote for CNN. 

Ward, cameraman Scott McWhinnie and producer Brent Swails were inside a vehicle when they were surrounded by armed fighters who violently shouted at them to not film the scene.
As Ward’s producer Brent Swails tried to defuse the situation, the general grabbed his rifle and fired off a round, apparently targeting a bird.
CNN ‘s Clarissa Ward has revealed she and her team were held captive by a militia for two days while reporting in Darfur. She is pictured smiling awkwardly with her cameraman Scott McWhinnie and one of their captors after they were told they would be released