Aug. 24 (UPI) -- Former Chadian President Hissene Habre, who was an ally to the West during the Cold War and later convicted of war crimes, died of COVID-19 on Tuesday. He was 79.
Habre was diagnosed and hospitalized with the coronavirus disease in Senegal more than a week ago. He had been serving a life sentence for war crimes that occurred under his reign from 1982 to 1990.