Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to bring the country’s 52-year old conflict with the FARC rebels to an end.
Santos had managed to secure a peace deal with the FARC rebels, although it was voted down in a referendum less than a week ago.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee wrote in a statement that it decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2016 to Santos for his “resolute efforts to bring the country’s more than 50-year-long civil war to an end, a war that has cost the lives of at least 220,000 Colombians and displaced close to six million people.”
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