Colombia’s government has allocated $382 million (COP1.7 trillion) to respond to multiple disasters caused by what the government calls a “climate collapse.” President Gustavo Petro declared a national disaster after…
Almost 700 indigenous victims of Colombia’s armed conflict left the capital Bogota on Sunday to return to their lands in the west of the country. The trip from Bogota to…
Guerrilla group ELN confined tens of thousands of people from western Colombia to their homes in order to fight paramilitary organization EGC. The guerrillas issued the indefinite lockdown order in…
President Gustavo Petro met with local and regional leaders from Colombia’s Pacific region to discuss ending the wars between illegal armed groups that are terrorizing the region. Petro traveled to…
Locals from Colombia’s western Choco province are begging for help amid a humanitarian crisis that appears to be spiraling out of control. One in 10 inhabitants of Choco’s rural regions…
Poverty in Quibdo soared to the point that three in 10 people in the city in west Colombia are trying to live off less than $39 (COP149,000) a month last…
Two people were killed and some 250 people became homeless in Riosucio, an impoverished town in northwest Colombia where a fire destroyed some 60 wooden homes. “My town is being…
At least five people were killed and 12 reported missing as tropical storm Iota caused landslides in Colombia’s Pacific region and flooded cities in the country’s Caribbean coast on Saturday.…