Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Colombian President Santos for FARC ceasefire

‘This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos “for his resolute efforts” to bring the country’s more than 50-year-long civil war to an end, the Nobel Committee has announced in Norway’s capital, Oslo.
Santos received the prestigious prize for securing a peace accord with FARC rebels, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, back in September after nearly four years of negotiations.
It had to be ratified by the people of Colombia in a referendum in order to come into force.’
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