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The UN Committee against Torture has given Senegal 90 days to fulfill its obligations under the Convention Against Torture to put former Chad President Hissene Habre on trial for torture crimes...

The European Parliament Thursday urged Senegal to provide for a fair trial of former Chad President Hissene Habre , either in Senegal or through extradition to Belgium, which has issued...

African Union officials are expected to ask a panel of legal experts to determine whether former Chad President Hissene Habre should be extradited to Belgium to face human rights charges, a senior African Union official...

Senegal President Abdoulaye Wade has called for the creation of an African tribunal that would hear abuse charges against the continent's "dictators", similar to those leveled against former Chad President Hissene Habre . Wade's comments come as Habre...

Senegal's foreign minister said Sunday that former Chad dictator Hissene Habre , wanted in Belgium for alleged human rights abuses committed during his 1982-90 rule of the north-central African nation, will have his fate decided by...

A Senegal appeals court ruled Friday that it was "not competent" to extradite former Chad president Hissene Habre to Belgium to face charges of crimes against humanity - including some alleged 40,000 executions and the torture of...

Leading Friday's international brief, UN officials are now admitting that membership of the Security Council is unlikely to change anytime soon, despite months of negotiation and calls for changes to the body's composition. UN Secretary General Kofi...

Hissene Habre , the former president of Chad wanted by a Belgian court for crimes against humanity allegedly committed during his rule, has been arrested and is being held in Senegal, lawyers said Tuesday. Habre has...

In the latest reversal for African asylum seekers heading for Europe, the north African state of Morocco Monday began deporting potential immigrants, sending a plane carrying 140 West Africans off to Senegal. A second flight carrying another 140 Senegalese...

Belgium has issued an international arrest warrant for Hissene Habre , the former leader of Chad , lawyers said Thursday. Habre, rumored to be in exile in Senegal, is wanted for crimes against humanity that were allegedly...