Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos Wins 2016 Nobel Peace Prize

Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos has been announced as the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize winner for his efforts to bring peace to the country.

Santos’ government narrowly lost areferendumon a peace deal aimed at ending the 50-year civil war with FARC guerrillas earlier this week, but has nonetheless been chosen as this year’s laureate by the Norwegian Nobel Committee ”for his resolute efforts to bring the country’s more than 50-year-long civil war to an end.”

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