One of CNN's most prominent correspondents shared her harrowing experience she and her crew faced after being held captive by a militia group while in war-torn Sudan.

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Chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward recounted her team’s experience in a first-person account published Wednesday.

CNN ‘s chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward and her crew were held captive earlier this month by a militia in North Darfur, detained for about 48 hours before they were freed.

In an article posted on CNN’s website, Clarissa Ward, the network’s chief international correspondent, said that her crew was headed to the town of Tawila, a northern Darfur settlement under the control of members of the Sudan Liberation Movement,

After writing an account of how she and her colleagues were detained by a militia, the foreign correspondent hopes to keep the focus on the news, not herself.

CNN correspondent Clarissa Ward revealed that she and her team were held captive by a militia for two days while reporting in Darfur earlier this month.