Two weeks after letting former Liberian president Charles Taylor be transferred from Freetown to The Hague without a second thought [IJT-49], the African Union (AU) concluded during its summit meeting in Banjul on July 2, that an "African solution" should be used to try former president of Chad Hissène Habré. Based on recommendations from the committee of experts it set up in January, the AU decided that Senegal, the country where Habré has been living since 1990, was the best place to try him, despite the fact that the Senegalese court ruled that it did not have jurisdiction to do so. This decision by 52 African heads of state and government came about after the UN Committee against Torture declared on May 19 that Senegal had violated its international obligations by refusing to try Habré and gave it 90 days to either try him or extradite him to Belgium where he is wanted for crimes against humanity. "We thought that Senegal was the best country to try him and we will not shirk our responsibilities," declared Senegalese president Abdoulaye Wade after the AU decision. Wade had referred the matter to his peers in November 2005 saying, "The Member States of the African Union will give their opinion, but no one said I would follow it."