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Security & Strategic Review - June 2025
COLOMBIA: Internal displacement surges
The Geneva-headquartered NGO Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) announced on 13 May that it had registered 7.3m internally displaced people in Colombia in 2024. This was up by a dramatic 43% year-on-year and was the highest figure since the IDMC’s records began in 2009. A violent start to 2025 threatens to drive the number of internally displaced Colombians higher still this year as President Gustavo Petro’s government struggles to contain a security and humanitarian crisis in the Catatumbo region of Norte de Santander department.
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