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France’s President Emmanuel Macron. Photo: Supplied

French foreign lesions: An overdue reckoning

Colonial atrocities are finally catching up to Paris, and Emmanuel Macron’s government has not put up a fight

Brutal: Hissène Habré in N’Djamena in 1983. The former dictator died in prison this week, aged 79. (Photo by JOEL ROBINE/AFP via Getty Images)

Africa in brief: 28 August- 4 September

This is what happened on the African continent this past week

Lawyers appeal ex-Chad ruler Habré’s life sentence

Former Chadian military ruler Hissène Habré’s defence team have appealed his life sentence for war crimes, torture and sexual slavery.

Habré trial a victory for hearing crimes against humanity in Africa

The trial of the Chad dictator in Senegal shows that war and other similar crimes need not be heard in The Hague.

Victims of Habre’s Chad were starved, trial hears

Hunger was a much bigger killer of prisoners under the regime of Chadian ex-dictator Hissene Habre than torture, his war crimes tribunal heard.

Former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre.

Former Chad dictator hears atrocities case

Hissene Habre was forced into the dock as his trial resumed in Senegal over a string of atrocities committed during eight bloodsoaked years in power.

President Cyril Ramaphosa will outline his plan to fight corruption in his State of the Nation Address on Friday

Chad trial is a warning for Africa’s tyrants

In a landmark case, the country’s ex-ruler, Hissène Habré, is being tried in Senegal for human rights abuses.

Former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre.

Trial of Chad’s Habre suspended after boycott by his lawyers

The trial of Hissene Habre was suspended on Tuesday until September after the court named new lawyers because his defence team shunned the session.

President Cyril Ramaphosa will outline his plan to fight corruption in his State of the Nation Address on Friday

Chad’s torture victims seek justice in trial of Hissene Habre

Hissene Habre faces charges of torture and crimes against humanity in the first trial of an African leader outside his nation by a continental court.

Former Chad president Hissene Habre

Habré trial a triumph for justice

This month will finally see former Chad dictator Hissène Habré brought to trial for crimes against humanity.

Chad’s former president

African Union played vital role in Habré arrest

The detention of the Chadian dictator is thanks in part to the body’s insistence that Senegal try him.

The Hague to consider ex-dictator Hissène Habré’s fate

The Hague to consider ex-dictator Hissène Habré’s fate

The UN’s highest court is preparing to decide whether Chad’s former dictator Hissene Habre can be prosecuted for crimes against humanity and torture.

Chad sentences former president to death

A Chadian court on Friday sentenced a former president and 11 rebels to death for crimes against the state, an official said.