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Weekly Report - 21 November 2024 (WR-24-46)
COLOMBIA: Spectre of corruption hangs over disaster response
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro declared a national disaster last week, making funds available to assist tens of thousands of people in 27 of the country’s 32 departments affected by heavy rain, causing widespread flooding and landslides. The inspector general’s office responded by raising concern that the government had not put in place any measures to prevent a repeat of the corruption scandal involving the national unit for disaster risk management, Unidad Nacional para la Gestión de Riesgo de Desastres (UNGRD), in which the finance minister, Ricardo Bonilla, and politicians from a range of political parties are embroiled.
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