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Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have announced they will immediately withdraw from the International Criminal Court, labelling it an “instrument of neo-colonialist repression”.
The three military-led countries issued a joint statement, saying they would not recognize the authority of the UN-backed court, based in The Hague.
The court has not yet responded to the decision by the three countries, all of which with close ties to Russia whose leader Vladimir Putin has been subject to an ICC arrest warrant. The three states said they wanted to set up “indigenous mechanisms for the consolidation of peace and justice”. END
