She arrived back in the United States for a three-month break on Aug. 2, just before the deadly terrorist bombings in East Africa that sparked the U.S. retaliation on Aug. 20. At a feeding center in Ajiep in southern Sudan, officials estimate that 120 people are dying every day as relief workers try to find ways to get more food to the area. Looting, inefficient relief operations and politics have all served to stymie an estimated 9,500 tons of food dropped on southern Sudan each month by the U.N. World Food Program, relief workers say. Experts indicate that the WFP delivers only about 12 cents of food for every dollar spent. And there is always the war.
Fields lie fallow because of it.
Children and women are killed and maimed by land mines as they walk through the brush to fetch water. Only two survived. The BBC confirmed three years ago that Sudanese factories have manufactured chemical weapons. As countries like Iran, Iraq and Libya support the Islamic fundamentalists in the north, the United States has begun to tacitly support the SPLA by funding its friends in neighboring Uganda, Underwood said. She has even seen U.S Marines on operations in the area.