{"id":39572,"date":"2026-07-14T12:10:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T10:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=39572"},"modified":"2026-07-14T12:10:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T10:10:57","slug":"us-targets-icc-over-sovereignty-concerns","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/us-targets-icc-over-sovereignty-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"US targets ICC over sovereignty concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">United States (US) Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced a campaign aimed at dismantling what he describes as the threat the International Criminal Court\u00a0(ICC)\u00a0poses to US sovereignty.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The initiative will involve a whole-of-government approach to systematically limit the court&#8217;s ability to operate, investigate, or prosecute American service members and government officials.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In a statement, the State Department said no diplomatic measure would be ruled out.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Proposed actions include revoking visas, and imposing travel bans on ICC personnel, expanding sanctions against the court and affiliated organisations, and implementing a range of additional measures intended to curb the International Criminal Court&#8217;s activities.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14725,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-39572","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"International Criminal Court","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39573,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39572\/revisions\/39573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=39572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}