Sudan's war: The fertile Jebel Marra region where food is rotting amid the conflict

The Jebel Marra area is neutral in the war but its produce cannot get out to feed a hungry nation.

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Wrapped in bright colours and wearing plastic sandals, women in the country's Jebel Marra mountains set off each morning on donkeys, children in tow, to tend the fields.

In a Mediterranean-like climate and using the fertile soil, they grow peanuts, oranges, apples and strawberries - rare crops for a country now facing one of the world's worst hunger crises. Before the conflict, Jebel Marra's organic oranges were particularly prized across the country for their juiciness.

The mountainous area in this part of the western Darfur region is dotted with green peaks, especially now as it is the rainy season.

The rest of Sudan teeters on the edge of disaster.