Robayo, 31, won the prize for his coverage of the occupation of an army base near Toribio in Cauca province in July 2012 by members of an indigenous community who want the army and FARC guerrillas to leave their violence-plagued region.
He has been AFP’s correspondent in Cali, capital of the FARC stronghold of Cauca, since 2008.
He is originally from the north eastern Colombian city of Cucuta on the Venezuelan border, and before joining AFP covered the border region for three years for the country’s leading daily El Tiempo.

The Simon Bolivar Prize is Colombia’s highest journalism award.
It has 11 categories and this is the second consecutive year AFP has been chosen for a prize.

In 2012, Luis Acosta, AFP’s chief photographer in Bogota, won for a series of images of Colombian acid attack victims.