Former Chadian president Hissene Habre, who was serving a life term in Senegal for war crimes, is dead — Senegalese Justice Minister Malick Sall
File photo: Former Chadian President Hissene Habre is escorted by military officers after being heard by a judge in Dakar on July 2, 2013. , has died, Senegalese Justice Minister Malick Sall said. He was 79.Local media said he had died of Covid-19.
The former leader was jailed in Senegal's capital Dakar in 2016 after an African Union-backed trial over abuses committed during years of iron-fisted rule in Chad.Some 40,000 people are estimated to have been killed under Habre's leadership of the semi-desert country.He fell ill in jail about a week ago and was taken to a clinic in the capital Dakar before being moved to the Hospital Principal, where he died.
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