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GLAVNI DOGADJAJI PO HUMANITARNIM PITANJIMA
ETHIOPIA
JANUARY
12 Jan: Aid workers report that violence in the Gambella region of western Ethiopia has forced about 15,000 members of the Anyuak community to flee to neighbouring Sudan. Violence in the region erupted in December when the Anyuak were blamed for an attack on a UN-plated vehicle carrying government officials. Eight people in the vehicle were killed. Reprisals against the alleged attackers saw hundreds of Anyuak homes burned to the ground and dozens killed over a number of days.
19 Jan: The Ethiopian government is criticised for banning the country's sole independent journalists' association and urging its members to appoint a new leadership. The government said it banned the association because it had failed to meet its legal obligation to register, as required by the law.
29 Jan: Médecins Sans Frontičres (MSF) and the Tigray Regional Health Bureau launch the first programme of free anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs for the treatment of HIV/AIDS patients in Ethiopia.
FEBRUARY
2 Feb: Human Rights Watch (HRW) criticises Ethiopia for human rights abuses and condemns foreign donors for failing to help prevent them. In its 2004 World Report, the New York-based group says foreign donors who were pouring about US $1 billion into Ethiopia each year are focused on other issues. Its report cites restrictions on the country's media, attacks on political parties, and serious abuses by the police, including torture and mass arrests. The government denies the claims.
6 Feb: Ethnic violence leaves at least 18 people dead and several hundred homes burnt down in eastern Ethiopia. The Ethiopian Human Rights Council (ERCHO) says fighting had erupted between members of the Somali and Oromo ethnic groups competing for political power in West Harerge. Details of the killings in West Harerge came to light just days after the HRW report.
MARCH
29 Mar: Parliament votes for an independent investigation into reports of violence between different ethnic groups in the western Gambella region. The European Union (EU) expresses concern over "sporadic but persistent" fighting in the region. Earlier, the government had apologised to local ethnic communities for its inadequate response to prevent a massacre in early December that led to the violence.
APRIL
1 Apr: A National Partnership Forum Against HIV/AIDS is launched to coordinate a multi-sectoral response, highlight the government's commitment and bring together a wide range of partners to avoid duplication of efforts.
JULY
2 Jul: UNHCR closes down a camp in eastern Ethiopia where an estimated 250,000 Somali refugees once lived, after the last 719 inhabitants left the settlement to return home to the self-declared autonomous republic of Somaliland.
AUGUST
17 Aug: The government disaster commission warns that the number of Ethiopians in need of food aid has risen to more than 7.6 million as a result of crop failure and lack of pasture following poor rains earlier this year. More than 6.6 million people were already dependent on food aid following a prolonged drought that hit the region in 2002 and 2003. Areas hardest hit by the crop failures include the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region, North and South Wollo zones in the Amhara Region and East and West Haraghe zones in the Oromiya region.
OCTOBER
19 Oct: A UN assessment warns of a full-blown humanitarian emergency developing in the Somali Region following a prolonged drought that has caused the deaths of large numbers of livestock, the main source of livelihood in the area. It found that milk was not available or had become too expensive in many of the seven zones visited. Cases of diarrhoeal illnesses were on the rise, water had become extremely scarce and pasture was completely depleted.
NOVEMBER
22 Nov: An emergency polio vaccination campaign is launched amid new fears the disease may have spread from neighbouring Sudan.
22 Nov: A national hand washing campaign is launched targeting rural communities using television and radio, health centres and schools through information sheets in local languages.
24 Nov: American actor Danny Glover visits and criticises the deadly legacy of landmines.
ERITREA
FEBRUARY
16 Feb: The UN reports that internally displaced Eritreans continue to suffer the consequences of war and drought, resulting in inadequate fulfilment of basic needs such as food, water, health care, shelter and education. It says Eritrea has 58,953 IDPs living in and outside camps and unable to return to their places of origin plus about 16,845 rural expellees in the camps and other settlement areas.
MARCH
17 Mar: UN warns that despite a marginal improvement in Eritrea's humanitarian situation, the country still faces very serious problems. Years of sustained drought and the effects of war, it says, have exhausted people's coping mechanisms to the extent that a slight improvement would have no tangible benefits.
APRIL
26 Apr: Rains that normally fall along Eritrea's eastern and coastal areas from November to February are reported to have failed, raising fears of another drought.
MAY
5 May: Reporters Without Frontiers warns that 14 journalists are being held behind bars in Eritrea, making the country the worst in Africa to work in as a journalist. "Nothing has shifted in Eritrea - still Africa's biggest prison for journalists and one of the last countries in the world without an independent, privately owned press," it says. "Pressure from the international community, including the European Union, proved ineffective."
JUNE
21 Jun: Relief agencies report that a harsh drought has led to critical drinking-water shortages in several Eritrean regions, including Anseba, Southern Red Sea and Northern Red Sea. Around 30,000 people are being provided with emergency water by trucking.
JULY
20 Jul: UNICEF reports that hundreds of thousands of children are living in extreme poverty due to prolonged drought, the aftermath of a border conflict with neighbouring Ethiopia and its impact on the country's economy. It says an estimated 425,000 children under 14 years of age are affected, most living in families largely dependent on and headed by women. Malnutrition rates are high, with all regions reporting over 10 percent of children under five experiencing acute malnutrition.
SEPTEMBER
16 Sep: The government rejects a claim by the US Department of State that it violates religious rights and severely restricts freedom of worship for all but four government-sanctioned religions: Orthodox Christians, Muslims, Catholics, and the Evangelical Church of Eritrea. The International Religious Freedom Report for 2004 had said the Eritrean government's "poor respect for religious freedom for minority religious groups" had continued to decline and 200 members of religious groups were reportedly detained.
21 Sep: Ten media watchdogs call on the government to free 17 detained journalists.
NOVEMBER
24 Nov: Relief agencies appeal for nearly $157.2 million to fund humanitarian activities in Eritrea in 2005, saying the country has continued to endure the aftermath of war, five years after the 1998 to 2000 border conflict with Ethiopia. The consequences of war included destroyed homes, mined villages, shattered livelihoods, hunger and malnutrition, the agencies say.