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Association and a candidate who ranked 3rd in the 2016 presidential election in his
country.
95. For all the above reasons, the Court awards the Applicant reparation in a lump sum
of rhree billion (3,000,000,000) cFA Francs for the non-pecuniary damage he
personally suffered.
(b) Moral prejudice suffered by the Applicant's family members
96.The Applicant alleges that his wife Ajavon Goudjo lda, Afiavi and ail his children
Ajavon Ronald, Ajavon Evaella and Ajavon Ludmilla were affected and traumatized
by these judicial setbacks and taunts from neighbours and friends. He argues that
since their exile in France, his family members have fallen into a severe depression
marked by insomnia and seizures in the children, in the form of agitation and hysterical
howling, notwithstanding the antidepressant care they are given.
97.
The Court reiterates that it has already ruled that members of the immediate or close
family who have suffered physically or psychologically from the situation may be
entitled to reparation for the moral prejudice caused by the said suffering.2l However,
in order to award reparation for the moral prejudice to the Applicant's family members,
they must show proof of kinship.
98.1n the instant case, the Court, taking as evidence the copy of the air tickets and the
medical report attached to the file, in paragraph g0 of the present Judgment, has
already held that Goudjo lda Afiavi, Ronald, Evaella and Ludmilla are the wife and the
children of the Applicant, respectively.
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Beneficiaries of late Norbe_i Zongo, Abdoulaye Nikiema a/ras Ablasse, Ernest Zongo, Blaise llboudo and
Mouvement Burkinabd des Droits de l'Homme et des Peuples v Burkina Faso (Reparations) (20 15) I AfCLR
258, $20; Loh6 /ssa Konate v. Bu*ina Faso (Reparation) (2016) 1 AfcLR 3+b, op. cit, g +2.
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