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Africans to Decide Ex-Chad Dictator's Fate

Sunday, November 27, 2005 8:35:57 PM
By EDWARD HARRIS

Former Chad dictator Hissene Habre seen as he leaves the court in Dakar, Senegal, on Friday, Nov. 25, 2005.The former dictator was likely to be freed after a Senegalese court said Friday it had no jurisdiction to rule on his extradition to Belgium to stand trial for war crimes.Belgium had issued an international arrest warrant for Habre under its "universal jurisdiction" laws, which allow for prosecutions for crimes against humanity wherever they were committed. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)    DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - The African Union will decide the fate of Chad's former dictator, wanted in Belgium for trial on human-rights abuses allegedly committed during his regime, Senegal's foreign minister said Sunday.

Whether Hissene Habre should be extradited to Belgium for trial "isn't a Senegalese affair but an African affair," Foreign Minister Cheikh Tidiane Gadio told reporters in the capital, Dakar.

The subject will be taken up at a two-day AU conference scheduled to begin January 23 in Khartoum, Sudan, Gadio said.


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