French press, post-colonial security framing

Le Monde contextualises the ICC exit within France's strategic defeat in the Sahel, noting all three AES states also expelled French forces, and argues the ICC withdrawal signals a wholesale rejection of the post-Cold War rules-based order France helped construct, with minimal leverage available to reverse it.

“Le Niger complète le retrait du Sahel de la CPI, faisant écho à une rupture plus large avec les institutions issues de la guerre froide. (Niger completes the Sahel's withdrawal from the ICC, echoing a broader break with post-Cold War institutions.)”