Chad Begins the ICC Withdrawal Process.

In addition to the letter, the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chad announced that the country took this decision to accuse the court of committing what it called oppression of Africans.

The country has shown that since the International Criminal Court began its work in 2002, out of the 13 cases it has prosecuted, 9 of them involved Africans, while only 4 involved people from anywhere else in the world.

Chad, located in North Central Africa, became the fifth country in the world to take such a decision in the past few months, and the fourth in Africa, because in September 2025, the three countries that formed their own alliance called the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), namely Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali, also took a similar decision, accusing the court of selective justice.

This ssimultaneous withdrawals from the International Criminal Court comes after days of pressure on the court by the administration of US President Donald Trump, after the court issued international arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.

It seems that the United States administration has launched an open war on the International Criminal Court, as US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced last week that his country is going to launch a campaign aimed at crippling the court's ability to function. 

After Marco Rubio's statement, Chad became the second country in the world to announce its complete withdrawal from the court, after Venezuela announced a similar decision on Friday, accusing the court of bias, according to Venezuelan interim President Delcy Rodriguez, who is leading the country under US nodd.

The Chadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs revealed on its website that the decision to begin the process of withdrawing from the International Criminal Court was taken at the request of the United States of America.

The ministry confirmed that the US deputy Secretary of State for African affairs has asked the country to reconsider its membership in the court.

"The United States side expressed concerns about the functioning of the court and called on the State of Chad to consider its withdrawal from the Rome Statute," the Ministry’s statement said.

A few days ago, the former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Karim Khan, was dismissed from his post on charges of misconduct, yet his side, which also helped him in issuing an international arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu,claims that his dismissal was politically motivated.

The International Criminal Court was established in 2002 to try individuals who committed war crimes and crimes against humanity. It was the first court to be granted this authority, but it required member states to arrest those for whom the court had issued arrest warrants and transfer them to its headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands.

Before the series of withdrawals from the court, only Burundi withdrew from the court in 2017, followed by the Philippines in 2019, and Hungary did so before Benjamin Netanyahu visited it.