On the front lines with our reporter

While many armed rebels around the world are driven by extreme ideas, one elusive armed group is fighting for democracy: the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North. Nicholas Casey, a reporter for New York Times Magazine, and Moises Saman, a photographer, are affiliated with the group in the territory they govern amid the civil war ravaging Sudan. As many as 150,000 people could be dead and millions displaced, though the chaos has made an accurate count impossible. As the rebels eye the next town to “liberate,” they seem, in their words, better equipped for battle than for defending their people from a famine heading their way.