UN given green light to monitor peace deal between Colombia’s government

The Security Council on Wednesday unanimously authorized the U.N. political mission in Colombia to help verify implementation of a cease-fire agreement between the government and the country’s largest remaining guerrilla group, the National Liberation Army.
The council also expressed willingness to do the same if a cease-fire is reached with another armed group, the Estado Mayor Central.
The U.N. has been monitoring a 2016 peace accord between the government and Colombia’s then largest rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.
It ended more than 50 years of war in which over 220,000 people died and nearly 6 million people were displaced.
More than 14,000 FARC fighters gave up their weapons under that agreement, but violence between some rebel groups has grown in parts of Colombia.