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.…
Colombia’s President Ivan Duque said Sunday that the military has killed “Uriel,” one of the ELN’s most media-savvy guerrillas. In a press conference, the president said that the mid-level commander…
Colombia’s health minister can stop promising to pay the unpaid wages of doctor Heandel Renteria. COVID-19 canceled that seven-month debt. Renteria refused to abandon his patients in Quibdo’s San Francisco…
The people of Bojaya on Saturday commemorated the 2002 massacre in their northwest Colombia village for the first time in the presence of those they lost, but without the peace…
The main hospital in Choco, Colombia’s largest province on the Pacific coast, largely shut down on Saturday after almost all personnel went into quarantine after a coronavirus outbreak. The San…
Colombia’s indigenous organization ONIC said Friday that two babies and a woman died of suspected coronavirus infections as the native Colombians kicked off their own monitoring system. The deaths followed…
Turf wars that have intensified in different parts of Colombia are generating new waves of humanitarian crises. Since Sunday, more than 800 people have been forced to flee their homes…
A mysterious illness is ravaging indigenous communities in western Colombia where 10 children have died so far this year, local media reported Wednesday. Regional authorities sent physicians and bacteriologists to…
