Southern African press, African Union framing

News24 frames Niger's withdrawal as completing a Sahel-junta bloc exit from international criminal justice, noting the three AES (Alliance of Sahel States) members jointly declared the ICC 'an instrument of neo-colonialist repression' and are pledging 'indigenous mechanisms' without specifying which courts or bodies.

“With Niger's formal exit, the Alliance of Sahel States has now fully withdrawn from the ICC, denouncing it as an instrument of neo-colonial repression and promising indigenous alternatives.”