Operations to release 5 FARC captives ‘underway’: Santos
President Juan Manuel Santos said Thursday that humanitarian operations to release a general and four others who were recently captured are “underway.”
President Juan Manuel Santos said Thursday that humanitarian operations to release a general and four others who were recently captured are “underway.”
The Red Cross confirmed on Monday that it has begun conversations with rebel group FARC in hopes of expediting the release of an army general and two accompanying officials who were captured by alleged guerrillas…
Colombian police and emergency teams successfully recovered 53 high school students on Sunday who had been trapped in a flooding cave in the northern state of Santander, according to local media reports.
A former local Red Cross head from the north of Colombia appears in court records where hundreds of hectares have been deprived by paramilitary forces. The now-Red Cross volunteer denies accusations.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Colombia launched its “Disappeared: the Right to Know” campaign Saturday to draw attention to the more than 90,000 cases of forced…
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is providing assistance to nearly 3,000 people displaced by recent violence in Colombia’s most northwestern state.
Colombia’s Ministry of Interior announced that more than 120 people have been injured as a result of recent confrontations between protesters and riot police during the ongoing nationwide agrarian strikes.
At least 30 people remain trapped after an illegal mine collapsed in the southern Colombian state of Cauca which also killed three people and left two injured, local media reported…
Thirty-nine of Colombia’s cities continue to be impacted by violence related to the country’s ongoing internal armed conflict, said the Red Cross’ (ICRC) at the presentation of an annual report…