BOGOTA - Colombia will extend its health state of emergency until Feb. 28 due to the emergence of a new coronavirus strain in South Africa, the Andean country's President Ivan Duque said on Saturday. The health emergency "is extended due to the existence of a global declaration concerning the status of the pandemic as well as allowing us to continue taking all precautionary measures,"

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The United States will revoke its designation of the Colombian armed group the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) as a foreign terrorist organization on Tuesday and designate two breakaway groups, a senior State Department official said on Friday. Along with the removal, the State Department will designate two other groups, La Segunda Marquetalia and FARC-EP, as

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U.S. to revoke terrorist designation for Colombia's FARC on Tuesday, add 2 breakaway groups

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has emphasized the importance of efforts to enhance economic opportunities for former members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebel group, Reuters reported.



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The Biden administration has decided to remove the Colombian rebel group FARC from the U.S. list of foreign terrorist organizations, five years after the rebels signed a peace agreement with Bogota, two people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. U.S. officials could announce the delisting of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known by the Spanish acronym FARC

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Five years ago, in the ebullience of Colombia’s race toward peace, Franio Domico Bailarin returned home to the shores of the Rio Léon, the river in the country’s northeast where he and his indigenous ancestors had survived on iguanas, nutrias, lowland pacas, fish and jungle medicines.



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Five years after Colombia’s FARC deal, new armed gangs emerge and peace is still a dream for many

A volcano that destroyed an entire town in Colombia with the death of some 25,000 people spewed ash and gas this weekend on the 36th anniversary of that devastating eruption.

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