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Bomb attack on Colombia highway kills 14 ahead of election

Bomb attack on Colombia highway kills 14 ahead of election

A highway bomb attack in a restive region of southwestern Colombia killed 14 people and injured at least 38 on Saturday, the latest spate of violence ahead of next month's presidential election. Authorities blamed the attack in the Cauca department -- a conflict-ridden, coca-growing region -- on dissidents

Colombian environmental activist honored amid threats and exile

Colombian environmental activist honored amid threats and exile

Afro-Colombian woman Yuvelis Morales, a 25-year-old who has spent most of her adult life working to block the world's biggest oil companies from exploiting fragile ecosystems, won the environmental equivalent of a Nobel prize on Monday. Morales spoke to AFP about standing up to such

Genital mutilation: the silent suffering of Colombia's Indigenous girls

Genital mutilation: the silent suffering of Colombia's Indigenous girls

Alejandrina Guasorna did not discover until adulthood that she had been subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM) the day she was born in a remote Indigenous community in Colombia's coffee-growing region. In the mountains of Risaralda, home to the Embera people, dozens of babies have their clitoris