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** FILE ** Former Chad dictator Hissene Habre, left, is seen as he leaves the court in Dakar, Senegal, Nov. 25, 2005. For more than 20 years, former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre lived a life of luxurious exile in Senegal, taking a second wife and watching 'Seinfeld' shows. On Tuesday, July 2, 2013, judges at a special court in Dakar formally charged Habre with crimes against humanity, war crimes and torture. (Associated Press)

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President Obama symbolic visit last week to the "Door of No Return," through which African slaves are said to have passed as they boarded ships for the Americas, most likely was a rubbish chute on Senegal's Goree Island, Britain's Telegraph newspaper reported.