Life in jail for Chad’s ex-dictator Hissene Habre

Former Chad dictator Hissene Habre has been sentenced to life imprisonment for abuses committed during his time in power.

His trial had begun in July 2015.

Cheers, and fists pumping the air from scores of Habre’s former prisoners and their supporters greeted the ruling by Judge Gberdao Gustave Kam in a Senegal courtroom.