Global Agenda Goals:

- Reduce the numbers of deaths, injuries and impact from disasters.

- Reduce the number of deaths, illnesses and impact from diseases and public health emergencies.

- Increase local community, civil society

The initial newly built 90 low-cost houses

Eritrean and Ethiopian troop movements along their contested 1,000-kilometre border were also continuing, the UN Mission in Ethiopian and Eritrea (UNMEE) said in a statement released in the capitals of both countries, Addis Ababa and Asmara.

Eritrea banned the flights on 5 October.

By Abraham McLaughlin | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA -- On the surface, the reasons for rising tensions between the African nation of Ethiopia and its tiny neighbor, Eritrea, may seem trivial. The two are on the verge of restarting the bloodiest interstate war in Africa in recent memory, ostensibly over a border town called Badme - a desert outpost with just 5,000 people.

But dig deeper into the precarious internal

Even though Eritrea has been blamed for starting the conflict, however, both countries are likely to receive compensation for breaches of international law during the fighting, which claimed the lives of 70,000 and cost each country - two of the world's poorest - US $1 million a day.

The fragile peace maintained by Ethiopia and Eritrea since they signed a comprehensive agreement at Algiers in December 2000 is fraying dangerously. With a costly two-year war now followed by nearly five years of stalemate, patience on both sides of the border has worn thin, and there are worrying signs that the countdown to renewed conflict may have begun. Neither side appears eager for war, but to dismiss the tensions as mere sabre-rattling could mean missing the last chance to preserve

In Brief

Appeal No. 05AA001; Programme Update no. 1; Period covered: January - July, 2005; Appeal coverage: 76.3 %; Outstanding needs: CHF 73,000 (USD 56,721 or EUR 46,779).

Appeal target: CHF 308,641 (USD 239,814 or EUR197,783)

State Department releases chronology of activities spanning 143 years

The United States has spent more than a billion dollars in the past dozen years on humanitarian land mine removal efforts around the world.

This money has been spent to remove land mines, pay for educational messages on the risks posed by mines, help victims of mine injuries, and fund research and development to improve existing humanitarian mine removal programs.