Kevin Sood is Today News Africa foreign policy correspondent based in Riverside, California. Kevin earned his bachelor’s in political science from the University of California and his master’s in political science from California State University. He was the first former head of state to be tried and found guilty of human rights crimes in the national courts of another state. Yet, five years after the ruling, an African Union Trust Fund that was mandated by the Chambers to trace, freeze, and seize Habré’s assets to administer reparations has not yet become operational. They said recent unrest in Chad threatens to make justice for survivors in the form of reparations even more difficult to obtain in the future.

Source: The North Africa Journal June 07, 2021 12:33 UTC