[HIGHLIGHTS] Colombia: 25,000 people confined for ten days under threat from armed groups

Around 25,000 people have been confined for ten days in the Colombian Amazon. Two rival armed groups are preventing people from leaving their homes.

“We feel fear, anxiety. We cannot go out,” one resident told AFP. The two groups signed a peace deal in 2012, but have not yet come to an agreement on the future of the pact. The U.S. Embassy in Bogota says it is working with the Colombian government to find a solution to the problem.