Chad’s former President Hissene Habre dies of COVID aged 79

Habre, who ruled Chad from 1982 to 1990, was serving a life term in Senegal for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Chad’s former President Hissene Habre, who was serving a life term in Senegal for war crimes and crimes against humanity, has died, the Senegalese justice ministry said. He was 79. “Habre is in his Lord’s hands,” Senegal’s Justice Minister Malick Sall said on the TFM television channel, announcing Habre’s death. The head of Chad’s military government, Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno, also offered his “sincere condolences” to Habre’s family “and the Chadian people”.