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| In a Senegal court former Chad ruler Hisseue Habre was charged with torture and barbarity. | 1 |
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| Leader of the Senegalese Democratic Party Abdoulaye Wade won a presidential runoff election with 60 percent of the vote. This peaceful shift of power, rare in Western Africa, ended 40 years of Socialist Party rule in Senegal. Separatists in the southern Casamance region rioted on the first day of balloting, Feb. 27. | 2 |
| The Encyclopedia of World History, Sixth edition. Peter N. Stearns, general editor. Copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Maps by Mary Reilly, copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | |
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