Colombia

Colombia

Death toll rises in Colombia mudslide

Families and rescuers claw through the debris in search of victims in Colombia's deadly mudslide

03/04/2017

Colombia

Colombia: Rescue efforts intensify after deadly landslide

At least 200 people are now confirmed to have been killed in Colombia’s landslide disaster.

02/04/2017

Colombia

More than 250 killed in Colombia landslide

The death toll has risen above 250 following a giant landslide that sent mud and debris crashing onto homes in southwest Colombia.

01/04/2017

World

Colombia: Providing aid after FARC peace deal

The ‘La Havana’ peace deal signed last August between Colombia and the main rebel group, FARC, started the process to put an end to a 52 year armed conflict.

16/03/2017

Colombia

Explosion near bullring in Colombia's capital kills one

An explosion near Bogota's bullring killed one and injured at least 30 people, most of them police officers.

19/02/2017

Colombia

Colombia peace deal: FARC rebels complete final march

The last 300 members of Colombia’s biggest rebel group, the FARC, have reached a transition zone to lay down their arms under an historic peace deal with the…

19/02/2017

Colombia

Can Colombia's last rebel group find peace?

Colombia's second largest rebel group, the Marxist ELN, is seeking peace after the bigger FARC group has made peace with the government.

08/02/2017

Colombia

Colombia begins peace talks with ELN rebels

The Colombian government and the country's second-largest rebel group have begun official negotiations in Ecuador hoping to end a 50-year war.

08/02/2017

Colombia

Colombia ELN rebels release hostage on the eve of peace talks

National Liberation Army of Colombia are sitting down with the goverment in Ecuador to begin peace talks to end more than 50 years of conflict.

07/02/2017

Colombia

Colombian marching protest farmers defend the coca leaf

Colombian coca farmers fear for the future

29/01/2017

Colombia

Bullfighting brought back to Bogota, awakening age-old arguments

Bullfighting has returned to the Colombian capital, reawakening an age-old argument.

23/01/2017

Colombia

Colombia approves amnesty for thousands of FARC rebels

The Colombian Congress has passed a law offering amnesty to thousands of FARC rebels laying down their arms.

29/12/2016

Colombia

Colombia blames human errors in Chapecoense plane crash

The plane carrying Brazil's Chapecoense football team and was not certified to fly at the altitude at which it was flying.

26/12/2016

Colombia

Colombia: FARC rebels take first step towards demobilisation

Dozens of FARC rebels have gathered in Colombia ahead of handing in their weapons, in what is seen as a first critical step in implementing the peace deal.

10/12/2016

Colombia

First crash victims leave hospital while surviving Chapecoense players said to be stable

Days after the plane crash in Colombia that killed 19 of their team mates, the three surviving members of the Brazilian Chapecoense football team are in a stable condition in…

03/12/2016

Colombia

Colombia plane crash bodies head home to Brazil and Bolivia

The bodies of those killed on board the aircraft that crashed near Medellin, decimating the Chapecoense football team, are being repatriated.

02/12/2016

Colombia

Colombia's revised peace deal with FARC comes into effect

The new accord approved by Congress gives the country's largest rebel group six months to abandon its weapons.

01/12/2016

Colombia

Football air crash - leaked tape shows plane 'ran out of fuel'

The plane that crashed in Colombia wiping out most of a Brazilian football team was running out of fuel and had no electrical power.

01/12/2016

Colombia

Chapecoense crash: plane may have 'run out of fuel'

Investigators from Brazil and the UK have arrived in Colombia to help the inquiry into the plane crash that decimated the Chapecoense football team.

30/11/2016

Colombia

Colombian Senate approves FARC deal

The initial agreement with the rebel group was rejected in a national referendum in October.

30/11/2016

Colombia

Black boxes are recovered from Colombia plane crash

Thousands of grieving football fans have paid tribute to the Brazilian team which lost most of its players in a plane crash in Colombia.

30/11/2016

Sport

Chapecoense: A fairytale season turned into everyone's worst nightmare

Chapecoense were founded in 1973 in the town of Chapeco in southern of Brazil – the result of a merger between two amateur teams.

29/11/2016

Colombia

Colombia plane crash: Fans gather to mourn Chapecoense footballers

Hundreds of fans have gathered at Chapecoense’s stadium, the Condá Arena in the city of Chapecó, to mourn the players and staff killed in a plane crash in…

29/11/2016

Colombia

At least 71 killed as plane carrying Brazilian football club crashes in Colombia

A chartered plane carrying Brazilian football team Chapecoense to the Copa Sudamericana final crashed in the Colombian mountains, killing at least 71 of the 77 people on…

29/11/2016

Colombia

At least 6 survive plane crash over Colombia, including 3 Chapecoense footballers

At least six people survive, but 75 die, in a plane crash over Colombia.

29/11/2016

Colombia

New FARC peace deal signed in Colombia before congressional approval

Colombia's Congress will ratify the revised peace deal with the FARC, but Alvaro Uribe leads opposition calling for fresh popular vote.

25/11/2016