Lenín Moreno offers reward for information about suspected killers and orders resumption of military operations on Colombian borderThree Ecuadorian journalists who were abducted by dissident Colombian rebels have been murdered, Ecuador’s president confirmed on Friday. On Thursday, Colombia’s RCN network passed on to officials graphic photos purporting to show the men’s bodies, which Ecuadorian authorities are analysing. About 1,200 former Farc rebels are believed to have joined dissident drug- trafficking factions, including the Oliver Sinisterra Front, which is believed to have kidnapped the men. The three men were kidnapped investigating heightened violence in Esmeraldas, a province on the Ecuadorian side of the 364-mile border. Colombia’s president, Juan Manuel Santos, has sent top military and police officers to Quito in order to assist with the crisis.

Source: The Guardian April 13, 2018 14:45 UTC