Chad has joined a growing list of countries as it announced plans to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC).
The military government declared on Monday that Chad had begun the process to leave the court, which prosecutes war crimes and other violations of humanitarian law and is based in The Hague in the Netherlands.
The northern African nation is the fifth state in recent months to quit the international tribunal, as the United States continues to increase pressure on the institution.
Chad’s government said that the court’s effectiveness was “limited” and uneven and condemned what it said was a concentration of its activities on African countries.
Of the 13 investigations opened by the court since it came into force, nine concern African states, as opposed to four opened in other regions of the world “but without any concrete progress,” the government statement said.
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