Tibú takes off: Airstrip revival lifts hopes amid Colombia’s conflict

Children play on Tibú's airstrip. Image credit: Alfie Pannell. Bogotá, Colombia – The inaugural flight of a new commercial route from Cúcuta...

From the frontline to the production line: the ex-Farc fighters making backpacks for peace

La Montaña aims to give demobilised fighters economic opportunities in the face of government let-downs.  Display of La Montaña products in...

State of the Nation: No peace for social leaders

There were 34 assassinations of social leaders in January alone. We look at the numbers and ask why there is still no peace for Colombia’s human...

Tens of thousands march in Bogotá’s first anti-government protests of the year

By Lukas Kaldenhoff and Luke Barnes Sporadic outbursts of violence marred a largely peaceful protest yesterday. Marchers complain the government...

British filmmaker offers a “meditation on forgiveness” in documentary on Colombian conflict

Kate Horne and Jesús Abad Colorado. British documentary filmmaker Kate Horne’s latest documentary film The Witness: Cain and Abel tells the...

Guzmán: The FARC share the blame for the peace agreement’s failure

Colombia's government signed the peace agreement with the FARC-EP in September 2016. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. It’s fair to say that...

Opinion: No justice, no peace

Colombian President Iván Duque at a memorial service for victims of a car bombing in Bogotá last month. Photo by Efraín Herrera: Presidencia ...

UN ‘highly concerned’ over number of ex-FARC member deaths since peace deal

A makeshift building at a FARC reintegration camp in Santa Lucia, Antioquia. Photo by Arjun Harindranath At least 85 members of Colombia’s FARC...

British delegation concerned over Colombian peace accord and state of detainees

[caption id="attachment_29548" align="aligncenter" width="644"] FARC leaders Jesús Santrich (left) and Iván Márquez (right) have been accused of...

Attorney General to investigate JEP over alleged cover-up 

[caption id="attachment_32010" align="aligncenter" width="631"] Attorney General Nestor Humberto Martinez making a statement on transitional justice....