After Burundi, South Africa has now decided to withdraw from the Rome Statute, the treaty that established the International Criminal Court (ICC). The EU regretted the two countries’ decisions in the evening of Friday 21 October, the day on which South Africa made its plans known. Burundi announced two days earlier that it had passed a law criticising the ICC, a universal court set up in 2002 to rule on the worst crimes – genocide, crimes against humanity, attacks and war crimes.