US pledges multimillion ‘peace funding’ for Colombia
Colombia's FARC rebels laid down their arms and formed a political party following a historic peace accord signed in December 2016 by the left-wing guerrillas and then president Juan Manuel Santos. – EPA pic, May 14, 2019.
THE US yesterday announced that it will provide US$160 million in funding to Colombia, to help implement the historic peace accord signed between the state and now-disarmed FARC rebels. The funds have been allotted for the “implementation of peace” and to “formalise land” in areas ravaged by half a century of armed conflict, US International Development Agency administrator Mark Green told reporters in Bogota.
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