The Inter American Development Bank has granted $120 million to Colombia for disaster relief, in order to reduce its vulnerability to natural disasters and climate change. According to the Inter American Development Bank,...
Persistant rains in central Colombia are delaying the rescue of victims of Saturday’s devastating landslide in Manizales, which has already claimed the lives of 42 people and destroyed numerous homes. The heavy rainfall...
Colombia’s government plans to provide nearly $65 million in reconstruction funds to a neigborhood in the port of Cartagena after a geological fault destroyed hundreds of houses, President Juan Manuel Santos announced....
Colombia’s proposal for a new hemisphere-wide disaster relief system was approved at the ninth Conference for the Defense Ministers of America (CDMA) in Bolivia this week, reports the Sincelejo Herald. The new “dual...
