Editing International Criminal Court (section)

===African states===
In October 2016, after repeated claims that the court was biased against African states, [[Burundi]], [[South Africa]] and the [[Gambia]] announced their withdrawals from the Rome Statute.<ref name="WPGambiaWD">
{{cite news|title=Gambia is the latest African country deciding to pull out of International Criminal Court|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/gambia-latest-african-country-deciding-to-pull-out-of-international-criminal-court/2016/10/26/7f54d068-c4ca-440f-848f-e211ba29dc34_story.html|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|last1=Sieff|first1=Kevin|date=26 October 2016|access-date=26 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161027060357/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/gambia-latest-african-country-deciding-to-pull-out-of-international-criminal-court/2016/10/26/7f54d068-c4ca-440f-848f-e211ba29dc34_story.html|archive-date=27 October 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> Following [[2016 Gambian presidential election|Gambia's presidential election]] later that year, which ended the long rule of [[Yahya Jammeh]], Gambia rescinded its withdrawal notification.<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/world/africa/burundi-international-criminal-court.html |title= Burundi Quits International Criminal Court |newspaper= The New York Times |last= Moore |first= Jina |date= 27 October 2017 |access-date= 20 March 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20171109124035/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/world/africa/burundi-international-criminal-court.html |archive-date= 9 November 2017 |url-status= live |df= dmy-all }}</ref> A decision by the [[High Court of South Africa]] in early 2017 ruled that the attempted withdrawal was unconstitutional, as it had not been agreed by Parliament, prompting the South African government to inform the UN that it was revoking its decision to withdraw.<ref>{{cite news |last=Onishi |first=Norimitsu |date=8 March 2017 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/world/africa/south-africa-icc-withdrawal.html |title=South Africa Reverses Withdrawal From International Criminal Court |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171028094648/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/world/africa/south-africa-icc-withdrawal.html |archivedate=28 October 2017 |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=27 October 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Gissel |first=Line Engbo |title=The International Criminal Court and peace processes in Africa: judicialising peace |date=2020 |publisher=Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group |isbn=978-0-367-59335-3 |edition=First issued in paperback |series=Routledge studies in peace, conflict and security in Africa |location=London New York}}</ref>