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Colombia proposes shipping invasive hippos to India, Mexico

Ihesiulo Grace 3 March 2023 0

BENJAMIN OMOIKE WITH AGENCY REPORTS Colombia is proposing transferring at least 70 hippopotamuses that live near Pablo Escobar’s former ranch – descendants of four imported from Africa illegally by the late drug lord in the 1980s – to India and Mexico as part of a plan to control their

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Colombian army announces killing of key guerrilla leader in bombing

Ihesiulo Grace 15 May 2020 0

Colombia’s air force on Thursday bombed a camp of the National Liberation Army (ELN), a guerrilla group, killing one of its most wanted leaders, Defence Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo announced. Regional official Carlos Feliz put the number of guerrillas killed at 22, but Holmes Trujillo only mentioned the deaths of the leader known as Mocho […]

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Colombian indigenous people take law into own hands to save planet

Ihesiulo Grace 8 May 2020 0

 In a rural area in south-western Colombia, a lush undulating terrain with trees and bushes contrasts with the monotonous rows of sugar cane alongside it. “We have reforested our land, while the monoculture of the sugar cane company is sucking its fields dry,” says William, a member of the Nasa indigenous group, who does not […]

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Colombia ousts 11 military officials in spying investigation

Ihesiulo Grace 2 May 2020 0

 Colombia’s defense ministry on Friday announced the ouster of 11 military officials and the resignation of a general related to an ongoing probe into allegations the army spied on journalists, politicians, magistrates and other members of the military. The ministry did not name any of the people dismissed or the general. The country’s attorney general […]

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Colombia protests prompt border closures

Ihesiulo Grace 22 November 2019 0

Colombia closed its borders ahead of a national strike supported by a broad coalition of social movements on Thursday, which saw teargas deployed in the capital Bogota and a curfew ordered in the western city of Cali. READ ALSO: Traffic: Report erring lawyers to NBA, Falana tells FRSC President Ivan Duque, a social conservative, came to power in […]