9 Colombian departments at high risk of landslides
Nine of Colombia’s departments are in a state of high alert for risk of landslides, according to Ministry of the Interior Risk Management Director Carlos Ivan Marquez. W Radio reported…
Nine of Colombia’s departments are in a state of high alert for risk of landslides, according to Ministry of the Interior Risk Management Director Carlos Ivan Marquez. W Radio reported…
Fourteen national roads are closed completely due to weather conditions, highway police reported Thursday, with a number of airports also affected. Prolonged heavy rains have caused numerous cases of landslides…
Colombia’s comptroller general issues a warning to the governor of the Cordoba department for excess spending and irregularities in humanitarian aid to victims of this year’s winter flooding, W Radio…
Five people from a village in the central-Colombian Caldas department are missing after a flooded river swept away their house. According to media reports, heavy rains caused the Oyeta gorge,…
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has alerted people in areas devastated by the rainy season to prepare for more rain. In a press release Monday Colombia’s head of state said,…
The town of Pedraza in northeast Colombia was flooded 83 days ago, but inhabitants of the town are still wondering when the promised government aid will come, reported Caracol Radio…
Colombia’s transport minister calls the behavior of mayors who booed him at a local government summit “shameful,” and says he hopes news of the incident will not reach the international…
The Colombian government will ask the Ministry of Finance for an additional $38 million (COP70 billion) to deal with a second wave of devastating rains that are predicted to arrive…
Authorities in Santa Marta, a city on the northern coast of Colombia, declared a state of emergency, after recent heavy rainfall threatens to cause flooding. Clopad, the local disaster prevention…