Gambia joins South Africa to leave International Criminal Court ICC

Gambia is set to pull out of the International Criminal Court (ICC).


BBC reports that Gambian Information Minister Sheriff Bojang said the court had ignored Western war crimes. He said the ICC, for example, had failed to indict former British Prime Minister Tony Blair over the Iraq war.

South Africa and Burundi are also withdrawing from the court. Kenya and Namibia have said they might.