For nearly a year and a half, Sudan's army has been locked in a brutal civil war with a militia known as the Rapid Support Forces or RSF.

That fighting has devastated the country and triggered the world's largest displacement of people.

The UN is now warning of famine in some areas.

Sudan is also one of the most difficult places for journalists to enter, but the news hour secured rare access to report what's happening there on the ground.

That work is supported by the Pulitzer Center.

In her second in a series of reports, special correspondent Lela Molana Allen

traveled to cities on the front lines in central and southeastern Sudan,

where she met the people caught in the middle of this violence.

Ravaged. After a year and a half of war, this is what remains of the Sudanese capital Khartoum's residential

suburbs, once home to millions. The bullet-battered streets tell a story of hand-to-hand combat.

Craters from missiles fired at close range, ripping through walls and rooftops every few yards, a century old mosque, scarred by hails of gunfire.

The area's largest bank, incinerated, life-saving hospitals gutted.

So the RSF we're using this as a base.

Yes, as a base.

Right.

When the army, the staff liberate this place,

so the militia vomit and destroy it.

After months of fighting, the Sudanese army has managed to recapture this area, but danger isn't far.

Just across the Nile in Khartoum City, the rapid support forces continue to shell,

shoot and raid. Not a single street is unscathed by the violence. The ache of loss echoes through the eerie silence here.

Blocked off from the main cemetery by the constantly moving front lines,

civilians have been burying their family members killed in the fighting here in a makeshift

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