Myanmar's junta are expected to challenge the jurisdiction of the World Court to hear allegations the country committed genocide against its Rohingya minority in a fresh round of hearings from February 21, the attorney general of Gambia, which brought the case, has told Reuters.

Gambian Attorney General Dawda Jallow said that that Aung San Suu Kyi, who led Myanmar's defence at the first public hearings in 2019 but has since been deposed by the military, had been formally replaced as its top representative in the case.

Aung San Suu Kyi and many of her elected government members were arrested in the February 2021 coup.

The attorney told Reuters that a “hybrid hearing” would be held, a procedure where some of the participants are present in person and others participate online due to COVID-19 restrictions.

The Myanmar military is facing charges after more than 730,000 Rohingya fled Myanmar after a military-led crackdown in 2017, and were forced into camps across the border in Bangladesh. UN investigators concluded that the military campaign had been executed with "genocidal intent".