Jubilation As Sentence of Chad’s Ex-Ruler Upheld

About a dozen people in a court room in Senegal’s capital, Dakar, jumped up and down, crying “We won!” when an appeals judge upheld the life sentence imposed on Chad’s ex-President Hissene Habre, Reuters news agency reports. The group was made up of victims of atrocities committed during Habre’s eight-year rule in Chad. One of … Read more