An agreement has been reached between the African Union and the Senegalese government on the creation of a special tribunal to try former Chadian President Habré accused of war crimes.
The former Chadian president has lived in Senegal since 1990 after being ousted by President Idriss Deby. The ICC had ordered Senegal to either prosecute Hissène or extradite him.
Under President Abdoulaye Wade, Senegal had been reluctant to try Habré citing problems of jurisdiction and funding in spite of having been mandated by the African Union since 2006.
But unlike his predecessor, President Macky Sall told a summit of the African Union in Addis Ababa last April that he had taken a firm commitment to try Hissène Habre in Senegal.
According to the report of the truth commission in Chad in 1992, it was revealed that during his tenure, Habré oversaw upto 40,000 political murders and widespread torture.