Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa will visit Colombia next week to mark Ecuador’s solidarity with its neighbor during this year’s disastrous rainy season, reports Ecuadorean newspaper Andes. During his trip Correa will…
Colombia’s second largest rebel group the ELN on Wednesday proposed a temporary ceasefire to facilitate the relief of victims of floods and landslides. In an “open letter to the victims…
Rescue workers in Bello, outside Medellin, have recovered 47 bodies from the rubble of a landslide which destroyed 35 houses, authorities announced Wednesday. Some 80 people are still missing. Following a…
The Ministry of Transportat reports that 134 of Colombia’s main roads in 15 out of 32 departments have been damaged in this year’s rainy season, reported newspaper El Tiempo on…
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos declared a state of emergency to cope with the catastrophe caused by this year’s rainy season, which has killed more than 200, uprooted thousands of…
This year’s rainy season has taken upwards of 200 lives and left 1.6 million people homeless in Colombia. Local businesses, foreign governments and international aid organizations have given financial support for…
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos visits Bello, north of Medellin, to inspect efforts to rescue an estimated 94 residents who are thought to have been buried under 50,000 cubic meters…
After meeting with President Juan Manuel Santos in New York, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) loaned $350 million to Colombia to rebuild housing damaged by this year’s rainy season,reports a…
Rescue workers in Bello, Antioquia, have so far recovered 30 bodies from the site where a landslide buried 35 houses on Sunday, while 94 people are still missing and feared…