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Right-wing Duque, who replaces Nobel Prize winner Juan Manuel Santos, faces significant challenges

Duque takes office as Colombian president

Colombia's President-elect Ivan Duque has been sworn in to office, pledging to unite a divided nation behind his plan to toughen a peace accord with Marxist rebels and rekindle economic growth.

Colombia • 08 Aug 18

Ivan Duque has promised to toughen the FARC peace deal while keeping Colombia's economic policies intact

Duque sweeps to power in Colombian election

Conservative Ivan Duque has won Colombia's presidential election after a campaign that turned into a referendum on a landmark 2016 peace deal with FARC rebels that he pledged to overhaul.

World • 18 Jun 18

Seusis Hernandez could face extradition to the United States

FARC negotiator arrested on drug trafficking charges

A former peace negotiator for Colombia's FARC rebels has been arrested on drug trafficking charges and could face extradition to the United States.

World • 10 Apr 18

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos viewed the haul

Largest cocaine seizure in Colombian history

Colombian police have seized 12 tons of cocaine from the country's top crime gang, in what President Juan Manuel Santos said was the largest single drug seizure in the nation's history.

World • 09 Nov 17

FARC rebels keep acronym for new political party

Colombia's disarmed FARC rebel group is preserving its famous acronym as it becomes a civilian political party.

World • 01 Sep 17

A man shows a flag with the picture of late FARC leader Guillermo Leon Saenz, during the National Congress

FARC prepares for move to politics after disarmament

Members of the FARC group in Colombia have begun discussing the group's future in its first congress since the conclusion of a historic disarmament process.

World • 28 Aug 17

President Santos (L) was on hand to witness the last of the FARC's weapons delivered to the UN Mission in Colombia

Colombia declares FARC war over as last guns roll away

Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos has declared the country's 50-year conflict with FARC guerrillas "truly over", as the last truckloads of decommissioned weapons rolled away to be melted down.

News • 16 Aug 17

FARC rebels and logistics staff at the Transitional Standardization Zone Mariana for the final disarmament ceremony

Colombia's FARC completes disarmament - UN

Colombia's FARC rebels have formally completed a disarmament process to end half a century of war against the state, the United Nations said.

World • 29 Jun 17

The rebels are expected to turn in all their arms by June

Colombia FARC rebels to start disarmament process

Colombia's Marxist FARC rebels can begin surrendering their weapons to the United Nations now that almost 7,000 of them have reached designated demobilisation zones around the country, President Juan Manuel Santos has said.

News • 21 Feb 17

President Higgins giving his keynote speech in Colombia's National University, Bogota

Ireland can help Colombian peace process - Higgins

President Michael D Higgins says Ireland wants to be a bridge between the EU and Colombia to help that country's peace process.

News • 13 Feb 17

Colombia's House of Representatives voted 130-0 in favour of the deal

Colombian Congress ratifies peace deal with FARC

Colombia's government is ready to speed the passage of laws and reforms so it can carry out a peace deal with leftist FARC rebels, pending approval from the constitutional court, officials have said.

News • 01 Dec 16

The revised peace accord passed by a vote of 75-0 in the Senate

Colombian Senate backs revised FARC deal

Colombia's Senate has approved a revised peace accord between the government and the FARC rebel group, taking a first step toward ratifying an agreement that was rejected by voters.

News • 30 Nov 16

Juan Manuel Santos and Rodrigo 'Timochenko' Londono inked the pact with a pen made from a bullet

Colombia and FARC sign revised peace deal

Colombia's president and the FARC leader have signed a revised peace accord in a far more sober ceremony than a first deal rejected last month by millions at a plebiscite.

News • 24 Nov 16

Alvaro Uribe said improvements have been made in the deal but there is still a way to go

Re-drafted FARC peace deal criticised

Members of Colombia's opposition have spoken out on a revised peace accord between the government and Marxist FARC rebels, criticising the new deal for impunity towards guerrilla members guilty of crimes.

News • 23 Nov 16

Colombian govt reaches new deal with FARC rebels

Colombia's government and the Marxist FARC rebels say they have agreed on a revised peace deal to end a 52-year war, six weeks after the original was narrowly rejected in a referendum amid objections it was too favourable to the rebels.

News • 13 Nov 16

People take part in a march for peace in Medellin earlier this week

Colombia and FARC begin talks on new peace deal

Colombia's government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia have started talks on how to rework a peace deal, rejected in a referendum last month, that would end Latin America's longest civil war.

News • 23 Oct 16

Juan Manuel Santos has promised to revive to peace plan

Colombian president wins Nobel Peace Prize

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has won the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize, in a surprise after Colombians voted "No" to an agreement he signed with Marxist rebels to end 52 years of war.

News • 07 Oct 16

Colombians take part in a 'March for Peace' in Bogota yesterday

EU suspends Colombia fund after FARC deal rejected

The European Union has announced it is suspending a development fund earmarked for Colombia, following a referendum in which voters rejected a peace deal with the FARC rebel group.

News • 06 Oct 16

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and FARC leader Timochenko shake hands at last week's accord before it was defeated at the polls

Peace in Colombia is close - president

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and opposition rival Alvaro Uribe have met in a bid to resolve differences over a peace deal with Marxist FARC rebels that was rejected in a shock vote this week.

News • 06 Oct 16

No supporters celebrate following their victory in the referendum in Bogota

Colombia's chief peace negotiator offers to resign

The Colombian government's chief peace negotiator in peace talks with the Marxist FARC guerrillas has offered his resignation after voters narrowly rejected a peace deal with the rebels.

News • 03 Oct 16

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos (L) and FARC head Timochenko shake hands after signing the accord

Colombia, FARC sign accord ending 52-year war

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and Marxist rebel leader Timochenko used a pen made from a bullet to sign an accord ending a half-century war that killed a quarter of a million people.

News • 27 Sep 16

FARC leader Timoleon Jimenez speaks during a press conference with other members of his delegation in Havana

Colombia FARC force orders definitive ceasefire

Colombia's FARC rebel force ordered a definitive ceasefire this evening as part of an accord to end 52 years of conflict with the government.

News • 28 Aug 16

People celebrate the announcement in Bogota

Colombian government reaches peace deal with FARC

Colombia's government and Marxist FARC rebels have reached a final peace deal to end a five-decade war which once took the resource-rich country to the brink of collapse.

News • 25 Aug 16

A man passes by a graffiti reading 'Peace for the people' in Cali, Colombia

FARC and Colombia to sign definitive ceasefire

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro have arrived in Havana ahead of the signing of an historic agreement between Colombia's government and leftist FARC rebels.

News • 23 Jun 16

Talks with the FARC, aimed at ending a five-decade-long war began in late 2012

Colombia halts bombing raids against FARC rebels

Colombia will halt bombing raids against FARC rebels for one month, in recognition of a unilateral ceasefire declared by the guerrillas as peace talks with the government advance.

News • 11 Mar 15