More than 3,000 people have been displaced in western Colombia amid fighting between left-wing ELN rebels, their neo-paramilitary rivals “Los Urabeños” and the army, according to authorities.
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos told the United Nations on Thursday that successful peace deals with the country’s main guerrilla groups would make a big dent in the drug trade, boosting the country’s…
In an attempt to stimulate Colombia’s coca farmers to abandon illicit crops, the United Nations has set up a system to buy and sell products from farmers taking part in crop substitution programs.
The United Nations, in charge of monitoring a future peace deal between Colombia’s government and FARC rebels, warned Monday about a possible surge in violence by paramilitary successor groups if the FARC…
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed veteran U.N. envoy Jean Arnault of France to head the new U.N. political mission in Colombia that will monitor and verify a future cease-fire between…
The peace agreement Colombia’s government is negotiating with leftist FARC guerrillas may not be finalized by its March 23 deadline, the UN envoy to the country confirmed Wednesday.
The first 12 months that follow a peace deal with FARC rebels will be crucial for peace in Colombia, the United Nations’ representative in the country said Monday, adding that…
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos on Monday thanked the United Nations’ Security Council for unanimously supporting a mission to oversee a pending truce and peace agreement with FARC rebels.
The UN Security Council on Monday unanimously approved a resolution to establish a political mission to monitor and verify a future cease-fire in Colombia that would end Latin America’s longest-running…