Thousands of people are fleeing Sudan's war and seeking safely in the country's remote Nuba mountains. DW gained rare access to hear their stories.
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00:00 These remote parts of Sudan have become a place of refuge for people fleeing the war.
00:07 And some of them can now tell their stories.
00:12 My name is Hana Hamoda.
00:13 I fled from war in Khartoum after I lost my two children and one of my legs.
00:20 To tell their stories, we had to enter Sudan illegally via South Sudan to reach the remote
00:26 Nuba Mountains region.
00:29 Checkpoints are guarded by the SPLMN rebel group.
00:32 They have been fighting the Sudanese government for almost 40 years, demanding self-determination
00:38 and secularism.
00:41 Now the war has reignited this old conflict.
00:46 As we're travelling with German NGO Kapan Amur, we are allowed to pass.
00:52 After an eight-hour drive, we reach Agiri camp.
00:55 Thousands of internally displaced people have sought refuge here, including Hana Hamoda.
01:04 When the bomb hit our house, I didn't lose my leg straight away, and I didn't immediately
01:08 sense that it was severed.
01:11 My body just felt numb.
01:15 She was taken to hospital.
01:17 When she woke up from surgery to amputate her leg, the doctors told her that she had
01:22 also lost her two sons, Awatif and Abrar, who were only two and four years old.
01:31 My children were adorable.
01:32 We played a lot together, but God has taken them away from me.
01:35 I will leave it to God to judge the government.
01:37 I don't blame God for it.
01:46 Roughly a quarter of a million people reach the remote Nuba Mountains region.
01:51 This local church played a crucial role in providing sanctuary.
01:56 Many people in the congregation here today say they have this man to thank for their
02:01 lives - Pastor Mosa Kodi.
02:05 A few weeks after the fighting broke out, he organised 23 buses which transported 1,500
02:11 residents of Khartoum to safety in the Nuba Mountains.
02:16 Our people scattered.
02:17 Our people died.
02:19 Our people were not having food.
02:22 The bus carried more than the number that it was supposed to carry because people were
02:27 running from there and they were not able to stay there.
02:29 So we just filled the bus and they faced a lot of hunger on the way.
02:35 People in this region have to get by without help.
02:38 Aid organisations can't access it because of the fighting.
02:42 Almost 10,000 people have found refuge in this camp.
02:46 Now at least they have a sense of safety but not much else.
02:50 They lack clean water, proper food and shelter.
02:53 And the only medical facility has not enough medicine.
02:58 Despite what she's gone through, Hane Hamoda says she won't give up.
03:03 She has two other children to take care of.
03:06 I do now struggle so that I may make them educated, so that I may make them be happy.
03:13 They should not feel that we don't have a complete mother.
03:16 That is why I am practising to do every activity around the world so that I may not let them
03:23 say that we lost our mum.
03:26 With the war still ongoing, many of the stories of those who have been affected are only starting
03:32 to trickle out.
03:33 What's clear is that the effects will last well into the next generation.
03:37 (baby cooing)