162. The Court therefore denies the compensation of 500,000,000 CFA claimed by the Applicants for themselves and holds that Senegalese peoples on behalf of whom the action was initiated and whose rights the Court has held have been violated are the proper parties entitled to compensation. 163. Ahead of determining the precise amount to be awarded to the Senegalese whom the Court has held are entitled to compensation, the Court notes that an immediate challenge that flies out of this process is the determination of the mode of payment of monetary compensation to a large and indefinable group. Senegal has a population of almost 17 million people with a sizeable number of adult male and female who have the capacity to express their political opinions on the situation in Senegal. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?locations=SN (accessed on 24/2/2022 1.07pm). The payment of monetary compensation for this indeterminable group is clearly a herculean task the Court is not inclined to undertake. 164. Indeed, the Court expressed its unwillingness based on the impracticability of assessing damages in a similar situation when an NGO claimed a monetary compensation of 1 Billion Dollars (USD) ($ 1,000,000,000) for the victims of human rights violations in the Niger Delta, Nigeria. The Court elaborated thus; “The Court acknowledges that the continuous environmental degradation in the Niger Delta Region produced devastating impact on the livelihood of the population...; But in its application and through the whole proceedings, the Plaintiff failed to identify a single victim to whom the requested pecuniary compensation could be awarded. In any case, if the pecuniary compensation was to be granted to individual victims, a serious problem could arise in terms of 49