Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos, believes that peace with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias De Colombia rebel group, (FARC), will not only boost economic growth but would also enable the country to rebuild its social fabric.

Mr Santos and FARC leader, Timoleon Jimenez, will be signing the historic peace deal later on Monday.

However, it might take a while for the Colombian society to recover from its over five decades of conflict.

In June 2016, the FARC signed a ceasefire accord with the President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos in Havana.

On August 25, 2016, Mr Santos, announced that four years of negotiations had, secured a peace deal with FARC and that a national referendum would take place on October 2.

Although the final peace agreement will require a referendum, this accord has been seen as a historic step to ending the war that has gone on for fifty years

The FARC will be relaunched as a political party, as part of the deal which is due to be put to Colombian voters also on October 2.