Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has won the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize, despite the rejection by the country’s voters last week of his historic deal with the rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc).
The Nobel committee said the efforts by Mr Santos had nonetheless brought the search for a permanent peace “significantly closer” and commended his “resolute efforts to bring the 50-year long civil war to an end”.
The committee acknowledged there was “real danger the peace process will come to a halt and the civil war will flare up again”. But it said the prize was an effort to “encourage” all those trying to achieve peace, justice and reconciliation in Colombia.
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