27/10/2017 (Agence Europe) – It is now official: since Friday 27 October, Burundi is no longer a state party to the International Criminal Court, becoming, to the regret of the European Union, the first country in the world to withdraw from the Rome Statute. “This marks a serious step backwards which risks further isolating the country within the International Community. This decision deprives the victims of crimes and human rights abuses of the possibility of obtaining redress and...