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Ten soldiers suspected of having threatened villagers with their weapons in a rural area of northern Colombia, have been suspended, local media reported, citing official source. The colombian government described the incident as “extremely serious”. “As soon as it became aware of the facts, the army command (…) immediately took …

Colombia is issuing a passport with the “X” option in the gender box from Thursday, for people who identify as non-binary, the South American country’s foreign ministry said. “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs recognizes gender diversity with the option of recording ‘non-binary’ gender in the passport. This will be identified …

At least eight people died and about 20 others are missing in a landslide that occurred on Monday evening on the road linking Bogota to southeastern Colombia, the services reported on Tuesday. emergency. “We have six dead at the moment. Two minors and four adults. The municipality has just informed …

Colombian Vice-President Francia Marquez announced that Swahili will be taught to Afro-descendants or those who want to learn this “vernacular” language of East Africa. The decision was made after she returned from an official trip to Africa, which took her to South Africa, Kenya and Ethiopia. She announced that Colombian …

Two Colombian journalists were shot dead on Sunday in the north of the country by people riding motorbikes as they returned from reporting on a popular party in the Colombian Caribbean, local media reported Leiner Montero Ortega, 37, and Dilia Contreras Cantillo, 39, were driving on a road between cities …