Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger Officially Quit the International Criminal Court
In a bold and historic move, three West African nations, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, have officially withdrawn from the International Criminal Court (ICC). And they didn’t leave quietly. In a joint statement released Tuesday, the three military-led governments slammed the ICC as a “political instrument of neo-colonialism,” accusing it of unfairly targeting African leaders…