According to media reports, lawmakers in Colombia approved the pact between the government and rebel fighters after the first peace deal was rejected by voters in October. The pact hopes to bring peace to a country embroiled in a 52-year-old conflict that has killed hundreds of thousands and displaced 7 million people.
   
 
News Alert Wed., Nov. 30, 2016 9:28 p.m.
 
 
Colombia passes a historic peace deal with FARC rebels to end the country’s half-century war
According to media reports, lawmakers in Colombia approved the pact between the government and rebel fighters after the first peace deal was rejected by voters in October. The pact hopes to bring peace to a country embroiled in a 52-year-old conflict that has killed hundreds of thousands and displaced 7 million people.
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