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 كتبت نعمه الباقر-The vital mission to report on Sudan’s conflict
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12:01 PM November, 22 2023 سودانيز اون لاين
زهير ابو الزهراء-السودان
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‘Nothing prepares you to cover a war at home’: The vital mission to report on Sudan’s conflict
Nima Elbagir
By Nima Elbagir, CNN
CNN reporter returns home to investigate war crimes. See how she travelled there
04:37 - Source: CNN
Port Sudan
CNN
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I have reported on conflicts around the world for over two decades, but nothing prepares you to cover a war at home. To see familiar places occupied and demolished. To fully plunge the depth of your helplessness.
Yet my team and I set out to do just that this summer, working on a documentary about Sudan’s conflict and the hidden hands ultimately responsible for the atrocities that have come to define this war.
Two separate voices fought for space in my head. One voice – the journalist – asked questions, took down notes and talked through testimony. I worked with my team to tackle the enormity of the logistical and editorial challenges that comes with filming an investigative documentary in a country ravaged by war.
The second voice, which I tamped down while working, was closer to a babble, looping round and round in my head, reminding me that I could never truly run away from the fact that this was home, this was personal.
“You, a people, whose spirit of revolution is ablaze”
The music accompanying these words is sometimes joyful, sometimes somber, sometimes martial, interpreted as they have been by so many of Sudan’s musical maestros. To so many Sudanese, though, they are instantly recognisable as the words of the people’s poet: Mahjoub Sharif.
“The depth of your sense of freedom will become a defining trait, running down the line of your descendants.”
Even now, I hear his words and I’m instantly transported back to being five years old. To the first time I watched my mother cry in our London kitchen, as she copied tapes over on our double cassette deck, one reel playing out the songs as the other recorded. We’d then pass the original on to whoever was next in line in their small community of exiles.
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