Over 770,000 Colombians affected by rainy season
Another 30,000 Colombian have suffered because of heavy rains the past week, the director of the Colombian Red Cross said Sunday. Since March, the beginning of the rainy season, a…
Another 30,000 Colombian have suffered because of heavy rains the past week, the director of the Colombian Red Cross said Sunday. Since March, the beginning of the rainy season, a…
Colombia’s Uribia Department for Indigenous Affairs will sue U.S. TV channel Telemundo NBC over claims that the Wayuu community practices female genital mutilation. On April 1, 2010, the station broadcast an…
An accident at the Cerrejon coal mine in La Guajira, northern Colombia, on Thursday killed at least four miners and injured another twelve. According to initial media reports, the accident occurred…
Colombia will train indigenous Wayuu to assist police in the northern department of La Guajira to deal with insecurity in the region, which borders Venezuela. “Policemen in the department of…
A Colombian man, who was convicted of the January kidnapping of a Swiss woman in the northern Colombian La Guajira department, was sentenced to 27 years in prison, newspaper Diario…
A Swedish national has been kidnapped from the farm she owned in the northern Colombian department of Guajira, authorities said Tuesday. The 32-year old woman, who has dual Colombian/Swedish nationality,…
The child mortality rate in large parts of the west and north of Colombia is as high as in some parts of Africa’s most depressing regions, the country’s Health Ministry…
One hundred and ten million tons of thermal coal were discovered in northern Colombia, Brazilian energy company MPX MPXE announced Tuesday. According to the Brazilians, the discovery was made in…
Wayuu indigenous communities will regain rights to the exploitation of salt mines in northern Colombia, Bogota’s Chamber of Commerce determined. The Chamber of Commerce arbitral tribunal declared null and void…