Cauca issues red alert due to flood fears
Local authorities in the southwest department of Cauca issued a preventive red alert warning on Tuesday night for residents along the department’s river banks after heavy rains, El Espectador reports.…
Local authorities in the southwest department of Cauca issued a preventive red alert warning on Tuesday night for residents along the department’s river banks after heavy rains, El Espectador reports.…
The government is set to put forward its “plan B” to assist victims of the rainy season’s devastating floods after the Constitutional Court rejected an extension to the flood emergency…
The authorities issued a tsunami warning for inhabitants of Colombia’s Pacific coast after the devastating earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck Japan Friday, though no evacuation has been ordered, El…
The north Colombian department of Cordoba is on high alert after the Sinu River burst its banks leaving much of the regional capital Monteria under water, while many parts of the…
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos announced on Tuesday that Colombia will borrow $150 million from the World Bank to help the victims of this year’s rainy season. “We are going…
Colombia’s Institute of Mining and Geology (Ingeominas) issued a red alert warning that a second eruption of the Galeras volcano is imminent, after it erupted around 4AM Wednesday. Diego Gomez from…
Emergency services are working to free around 100 workers trapped following an explosion in a tunnel in the San Fernando mine located in Amaga, in the central Colombian department of…
At least 70 houses were burned to the ground in a fire of unknown origin in the western Medellin suburb of Alto de la Virgen on Wednesday evening. A loud…
A hardware store in the Bogota neighborhood of Bosa was attacked on Wednesday by unknown assailants who launched explosives at the building, reported Colombian media. The attack took place in…