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The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warned against the displacement of 744 people from Afro-descendant communities in the Nariño Department, bordering Ecuador, which represents a increase compared to July 10.
The entity reported that the new displacements took place on Wednesday due to new clashes between the dissident group of FARC calling it "Front Sinisterra Oliver" and the l? criminal organization "People of the Common".
The displaced people reached the urban centers of the municipalities of Olaya Herrera and Roberto Payán, and are housed in the homes of their families and friends and in shelters, "OCHA said in a statement. release
of affected children and adolescents rose to 284 and the total number of families affected by these fighting reached 222.
On January 10, Ulio, OCHA reported that 462 people who lived in at least seven villages in the municipality of Roberto Payán were displaced by the fighting.
To attend the emergency, a mission of this entity, the Office of the Ombudsman, the Governorate Nariño and the 39, Colombian Institute of Family Welfare (ICBF) came to the municipality to visit the city.
The "Oliver Sinisterra" front, headed by Walter Patricio Arizala Vernaza, aka "Guacho", is responsible for the. kidnapping and murder of three members They so Also accused of the murder of Katty Velasco Pinargote and Oscar Villacís Gómez, Ecuadorians abducted last April in the border province of Esmeraldas. EFE
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