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FARC, Colombia agree kids can leave camps

The government of Colombia and FARC rebels have agreed on moving a small number of children out of the group's camps.

Colombia's government and the rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia say they have agreed on the return of a handful of children living in the group's camps to civilian life.

Negotiators working on a peace deal in Havana said on Sunday evening that they had agreed to move children younger than 15 out of the FARC's camps. The head of the rebels' negotiating team told Colombian media last year that there were 13 children younger than 15 living among FARC fighters.

The two sides have been negotiating a peace accord since 2012 that would end their more than 50-year war. They missed a deadline for a final deal two months ago and have yet to reach agreement on a ceasefire and the disarming and demobilising of rebels into temporary protected zones.


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