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Red Cross says people displaced by conflict in Colombia doubled last year
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Red Cross says people displaced by conflict in Colombia doubled last year

Al Jazeera·Al Jazeera Staff·6 months ago
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Annual report by ICRC finds worsening conditions for Colombian civilians amid continued fighting between armed groups.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has documented an uptick in displacement, disappearances and explosive injuries as a result of Colombia’s six-decade-long internal conflict.

In an annual report released on Tuesday, the ICRC found that 2025 saw the “worst humanitarian consequences” in the last decade of the conflict.

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Since 1964, Colombia has been enmeshed in a multilateral conflict that has pitted criminal groups, left-wing rebels, right-wing and government forces against each other.

A turning point came in 2016, when the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the country’s largest…

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