Extreme violence and civilian casualties characterize Sudan dictatorship’s hidden war in the south

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On Location Sudan: Africa’s Hidden War

In a remote and inhospitable border region of Sudan a war has been raging for two years, pitting black African rebels against President Omar al-Bashir’s Arab-led regime in Khartoum. The UN, aid agencies and journalists are all banned from the Nuba Mountains.

Khartoum continues to refuse humanitarian access to the Nuba Mountains. The ongoing war is being conducted almost entirely of sight. Just 16-years-old, with a slight frame, Taqueen lies in the same hospital bed he has for a month, a grimy plaster cast.

Children are back to school in the war-torn Nuba Mountains. But frequent air raids send them running for cover. Dozens of waist-deep holes are dug around the perimeter of this primary school in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains.