The dynamics of the humanitarian context in Colombia continue to represent a challenge for thousands of people who live in rural populations and some urban areas in high-impact areas. The needs persist mainly due to clashes between non-state armed groups, combats between them and public forces and harassment, in addition to climatic events that exacerbate vulnerabilities, causing an impact on their well-being and living conditions. Between January and April of the current year, approximately 72,700 victims were reported resulting from massive emergencies such as confinements (51,000 people) and massive displacements (24,300 people) in 49 municipalities in 10 departments, of which at least 2,600 people have suffered double damage by suffering from these events at the same time. Additionally, people belonging to ethnic communities concentrate 62% of the impact (indigenous with 41% and Afro-Colombians with 22%), especially in the Pacific.
Although there was a peak in emergencies in March, in the accumulated of the first four months there is an increase of 167% in the number of confined people and 38% in massively displaced people compared to the same period in 2023; The effects are particularly concentrated in Chocó (Alto Baudó, Sipi), Nariño (Magüí, Olaya Herrera, El Charco, Cumbitara, Roberto Payán), Sur de Bolívar (Morales, Santa Rosa del Sur, Norosí), Antioquia (Segovia, Cáceres) and Cauca (Algeria, Lopez de Micay, Balboa).
The intensification of armed actions in Cauca, particularly in Algeria, where only between March and April the large number of combats, harassment, clashes, attacks and installation of explosive devices and other acts of violence that have left more than 3,300 victims of massive emergencies that have been able to quantify. The persistence of emergencies is expected, such as massive displacements and confinements, among other acts of systematic violence and generalized fear that extends to populations in other municipalities.who do not report and make invisible cases of recruitment, use and association of minors as part of social and territorial control.
There is a warning about the continuity of the humanitarian effects, which is why the implementation of prevention measures and urgent and timely care continues to be a necessity. to mitigate and repair the serious damage that puts the lives of boys, girls, adolescents, women and adult men at risk, many of them belonging to ethnic communities and in vulnerable situations.
Regarding the effects of events associated with climate variability, in just four months the UNGRD report accounts for more than one million two hundred people, representing an increase of 941% compared to those reported in the same period of 2023. Water shortages and rationing are the main impact, with around 542,000 people (44%) affected, as part of the impact of the El Niño Phenomenon.
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