• In the month of February, UNHCR assisted 725 Eritreans to return home from the Sudan.
  
  
• ERREC says despite reduction of rations and downscaling of beneficiaries, the available food aid in stock and pledges will not last beyond March/April.
  
  
• Ministry of Agriculture estimates the national seed requirement for 2004 at 7,000 MT and appeals for a timely response from partners.
  
  
• An estimated 16,000 MT of supplementary food is required to cover the second half of the 2004.
  
  
• The water and sanitation sectoral working

• UN Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator to visit Eritrea from 9-10 June 2003.
• According WHO, 52 new cases of measles were reported in Anseba zone.
• Mid-year CAP-2003 review document will be launched on 10 June 2003;
• 8,759 Expellees who have been residing in Shelab Camp have been settled to Gerenfit.
• Joint Eritrea and Ethiopia UN Country Teams meeting held in Asmara from 18- 19 May 2003.

United Nations Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, Ms. Carolyn McAskie arrives in Asmara on Monday 9 June 2003

• The Government of Eritrea formed a committee to coordinate drought response;
  
  
• OCHA organised a donor meeting in Geneva on 27 January 2003;
  
  
• ERREC says due to the delayed arrival of pledges and very low available stocks, it has not yet been possible to stretch food aid distribution beyond 600,000 beneficiaries;
  
  
• Number of Eritrean refugees in camps in Sudan currently registered to repatriate reaches 32,571.

The Government of Eritrea issued a proclamation,

United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator visits Eritrea from 8 - 10 October 2002;

A two-day workshop facilitated by Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) was held from 29-30 August 2002 to prepare for the Consolidated Appeal Process (CAP)2003;

UNMEE's mandate has been adjusted to include mine clearance, and administrative and logistical support for the field offices of the EEBC;

• The Eritrean Relief and Refugee Commission (ERREC) alerted the international and humanitarian community that Eritrea is facing exceptionally sever and prolonged drought that is threatening the survival of people and animals;
  
  
• On 12 July 2002 the UN Security Council has called on Eritrea and Ethiopia to fully cooperate with the border demarcation process between the two countries;
  
  
• Since the voluntary repatriation of Eritrean refugees from the Sudan started on 12 May 2001, UNHCR in collaboration

• The UN Security Council members reiterated the need for Eritrea and Ethiopia to cooperate closely with Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission and UN Mission to Eritrea and Ethiopia;
  
  
• The Government of Eritrea and the UN Country Team in Eritrea launched the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) document on 15 May 2001 at the Asmara Intercontinental Hotel;
  
  
• A Donor Mission was conducted on 16 and 17 May 2002 to Gash Barka Zone facilitated by the United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA);
  
  

• Members of the United Nations Security Council met with Diplomatic Corps, UN agencies, Non Governmental Organizations and religious leaders in Eritrea on 24 February 2002 at the Confederation of Eritrean Workers conference room. Eritrean and Ethiopian religious leaders met in Asmara and Addis-Ababa assisted by Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) from 13-16 February 2002 to promote confidence building;
• A one day donor field mission facilitated by the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) was conducted

On 3 and 2 November 2001, ICRC repatriated 23 Eritrean Prisoners of war to Eritrea and 172 civilian Ethiopians to Ethiopia, respectively.

Since the resumption of the second phase of voluntary repatriation, UNHCR has repatriated 3,532 Eritrean refugees from the Sudan.

• 7,697 IDPs in camps in Debub region have returned to their home villages in Tsorona sub-zone.
  
  
• ICRC has repatriated 524 civilian Ethiopians from Eritrea to Ethiopia during the month of September 2001.
  
  
• UNMEE is facilitating ways to return 43,995 IDPs living in camps to their home villages.
  
  
• Information campaign has started in Port Sudan and other refugee camps in Sudan on 23 September 2001 to restart repatriation of 41,000 Eritrean refugees until the end of the year.
  
  
• The focus of the water and sanitation