Category: Lifestyle

Dimar Torres Arévalo, a demobilised member of the FARC, which battled against Government forces for more than 50 years, was found dead on 22 April outside a National Army camp in North Santander, near the border with Venezuela.   The attack, which the UN experts say is an extrajudicial execution, represents “a risk to the peace process as it does not respect the final… Read More

Secretary-General António Guterres “strongly condemns the violence” and “the use of force to disperse the protestors at the sit-in site”, said a statement issued by his Spokesperson, adding he was also alarmed at reports that “security forces have opened fire inside medical facilities”. Mr. Guterres reminded the Transitional Military Council of its responsibility for “the safety and security of the citizens… Read More

A ‘strong and united Europe’ has never been more needed, declares UN chief Guterres With the post-world war international institutions eroded and under threat, a “strong and united Europe” standing alongside the United Nations, has never been more essential, said UN chief António Guterres in Germany on Thursday. The Secretary-General was in the ancient continental capital of Aachen, close to… Read More