Joe Bright
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard 28 Jul
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A spokesperson for Chad's government says the country is leaving the ICC because the court is quote ineffective and biased against African countries.
This was the same reason given by the governments of neighboring Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso when they announced their withdrawal from the court last September.
The ICC has consistently denied being biased against African countries.
The withdrawals also come amid a campaign by the Trump administration to dismantle the ICC after it issued an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the war in Gaza.
The U.S.
Bureau of African Affairs has issued a statement praising Charles' decision to leave the court.
Joe Bright, NPR News, Lagos.
Analysis by Human Rights Watch shows how Colombian mercenaries were recruited by an Emirati company and trained on military bases in the UAE before being deployed to Sudan.
Most of the mercenaries were retired Colombian military officers and while in Sudan, they fought alongside the Paramilitary Rapid Support Forces or RSF which has been at war with Sudan's army for over three years.
The UAE has denied supporting the RSF
despite mounting evidence.
Human Rights Watch says the UAE has supported other deadly groups across Africa and the Middle East, and analysts say this is being done to secure minerals and to expand the UAE's influence across the region.
Joe Bright, NPR News, Lagos
Fewer than half of the promised 24 deportees arrived Wednesday.
U.S.-based immigration lawyers say some of the deportations were blocked.
The deportees are expected to eventually be sent to their home countries, but it's unclear if they will be received.
None are from Syria alone, and local officials who received them say many were traumatized
after being chained for months during their detention in the U.S.
At least eight other African countries have signed deals with the Trump administration to receive non-citizen deportees.
Many of these countries have repressive governments and have been accused of holding deportees in poor conditions and without access to legal counsel.
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