Senegal on Sunday suspended a decision to send former Chadian leader Hissene Habre back home to face trial for crimes committed while he was in power during the 1980s, according to Reuters. Madicke Niange, Senegal's foreign affairs minister, said the decision had been taken after the intervention of U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay, who earlier on Sunday called on Senegal not to extradite Habre. Habre has spent more than two decades in exile in Senegal, facing widespread calls that he should either stand trial in the West African state or be extradicted to a country ready to try him.
