Nobel Peace Prize for Colombia’s Juan Manuel Santos

Nobel Peace Prize for Colombia’s Juan Manuel Santos

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Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Judges in Norway praised him for his peace deal with Farc rebels, signed last month after four years of negotiations.

But the agreement was narrowly rejected by Colombians in a referendum last weekend.

The 52-year conflict has led to the deaths of an estimated 260,000 people with more than six million people internally displaced.

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