The United Nations is to double the amount of food aid sent to Colombia in order to help and estimated 375,000 people who have fled their homes because of the country's long-running internal conflict.
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A rebel of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) burn an election ballot transport truck in cundinamarca mountain during the presidential elections in Colombia.
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Until now the World Food Programme had been providing food to cater for 145,600 displaced Colombians.
"Due to the deteriorating health conditions of the growing number of displaced people in the past year, WFP is obliged to double the number of people it helps," a spokeswoman for the UN food agency, Christiane Berthiaume, said.
The move will involve an additional 26 million dollars into food aid, most of it aimed at mothers and children.
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Most of the WFP's aid to Colombia last year was funded by the United States, Japan and Switzerland.
AFP