Council/Ethiopia inadmissible for non-exhaustion of local remedies in conformity with Article 56(5)
of the African Charter.
1 See communications 25/89, 47/90, 56/91, 100/93 Free Legal Assistance Group et al./Zaire, para. 36,
1995 and communication 71/92 Rencontre africaine pour la défense des droits de l'Homme/Zambia, para.
11.
2 consolidated communication 48/90, 50/91, 89/93 Amnesty International [et] al./Sudan, para. 31.
3 See communication 60/91 Constitutional Rights Project/Nigeria.
4 Rule 116 of the [African] Commission's Rules of Procedures.
5 communication 86/93 Ceesay/The Gambia.
6 Consolidated communications 147/95, 149/96 Jawara/The Gambia, para. 31.
7 Ibid, para. 32.
8 Ibid, para 33.
9 Longman Synonym Dictionary, 82 (1986).
10 Consolidated communications 147/95, 149/96 Jawara/The Gambia supra, para. 33.
11 Ibid, para. 32.
12 Longman Synonym Dictionary, 82 (1986).
13 Consolidated communications 147/95-149/96 Jawara/The Gambia, para. 32.
14 Ibid, para 35.
15 Longman, p. 1183.
16 Communication 560/1993, UN Doc CCPR/C/59/D/560/1993 (1997).
17 See also L. Emil Kaaber v. Iceland; Communication 674/1995; UN Doc. CCPR/C/58/D/674/1995 (1996);
Communication 910/2000 Ati Antoine Randolph/Togo; UN Doc. CCPR/C/79/D/910/2000 (2003).
18 See combined communications 54/91 Malawi African Association/Mauritania, 61/91 Amnesty
International/Mauritania, 98/93 Ms Sarr Diop, Union interafricaine des droits de l'Homme and
RADDHO/Mauritania, 164/97 Collectif des veuves et ayants-droits/Mauritania, 210/98 Association
mauritanienne des droits de l'Homme/Mauritania, para. 80.
19 Communications 48/90, 50/91, 52/91, 89/93 Amnesty International [et] al./Sudan, para. 32.
20 Ibid.
21 See communications 27/89, 46/91, 49/91, 99/93.
22 Communication 45/90 Civil Liberties Organisation/Nigeria.
23 Editor's note: The English text of this decision has 62 paragraphs in all, while the French text has only
60.
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