Military-run Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso announce joint ICC withdrawal | ICC News

The three West African countries say they are leaving the International Criminal Court to seek ‘sovereignty’.

Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, three nations in West Africa run by military governments after coups in recent years, have announced their exit from the International Criminal Court (ICC), referring to it as “neocolonial repression” and accusing the judicial body of selective justice.

In a joint…