Colombia rebels say will halt offensive actions for COP16 summit

A Colombian guerrilla group said Thursday it would halt offensive actions during a UN biodiversity summit it had previously threatened in the city of Cali.

The rebels, composed of dissidents who broke away from the FARC guerrilla movement when that group signed a peace deal in 2016, said in a statement they had "decreed the suspension of offensive military operations against public forces in the city of Cali, in the period between October 11 and November 6."

AFP