The country hosts around 416,000 Venezuelan migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees estimated to live in Ecuador in 2024, 77% of whom needed humanitarian assistance
Gobierno colombiano declara situación de desastre y calamidad en el país ante el grave impacto de incendios forestales, primarily concentrated in the provinces of Guayas, Manabí, and Pichincha. The security situation has deteriorated dramatically, with homicides of adolescents between 15 and 19 years increasing by 17% in the first half of 2024
Colombia | Monitoreo de emergencias humanitarias: desplazamiento masivo y confinamiento, enero a septiembre 2024 – Colombia | ReliefWeb, while Ecuador transformed from a transit country to a key center of international drug trafficking, generating a spiral of violence
Refugees and Migrants from Venezuela | R4V.
Additionally, the country has faced significant natural disasters, with 3,623 adverse events from rainfall recorded since January 1, 2025, affecting 24 provinces, 213 cantons, and 876 parishes
Colombia | ACNUR. This convergence of factors has led the government to declare multiple states of exception and has complicated the humanitarian response to serve both the Venezuelan population and vulnerable local communities.
