Ethnic minorities in the war-torn Pacific region of Colombia will provide additional monitoring for a ceasefire announced Sunday between the country’s last-standing rebel group and the state. The special agreement…
Nearly 1,900 people have been forcibly displaced from their homes this year by illegal armed groups in western Colombia, according to a report by the United Nations Office for the…
Colombia’s western Choco province is unlikely to benefit from a ceasefire between the ELN guerrilla group and the military as the latter has barely intervened in ongoing violence with the…
Colombia’s last-standing rebel group, the ELN, has told news agency Reuters it killed a Russian hostage in April when he tried to escape. The Armenia-born captive, Arsen Voskanyan, had been kidnapped…
More than 3,000 people in the Choco province in western Colombia have been affected by several days of heavy rain as the Red Cross works to alleviate the situation. The…
Colombia Ombudsman on Wednesday claimed that the country is unable to endure any more violence and made an appeal to the ELN to stop kidnapping and killing civilians. According to…
A pioneering ecotourism entrepreneur has been assassinated by an illegal armed group in west Colombia, newspaper El Tiempo reported Tuesday. The body of Antioquia native Javier Montoya, who had been…
Police in the northwest of Colombia have issued a red alert amid fears that the AGC may avenge the killing on a ringleader of the country’s largest illegal armed group,…
During the month of May, the Pacific Coast of Colombia was engulfed by non-violent civic strikes. In response to long-standing government neglect, poor living conditions, and insecurity, residents of the Choco Department…
