11:40Colombia is just waking up to the news of the Nobel peace prize for President Juan Manuel Santos. According to Kristian Herbolzheimer, of peace consultancy Conciliation Resources, given the “toxic dynamic” of local politics after the referendum, the prize’s consequences domestically are “unpredictable”. Critics of Santos had derided the president for allegedly being motivated by winning the Nobel prize in his search for peace in Colombia. César Rodriguez Garavito, the director of Dejusticia, a Colombian thinktank, says the Nobel prize will boost efforts to reach a new peace deal. “It’s a recognition of the titanic efforts to reach peace.”

Source: The Guardian October 07, 2016 08:29 UTC