b. Are compatible with the Constitutive Act of the African Union and with the Charter; c. Are not written in disparaging or insulting language directed against the State concerned and its institutions or the African Union; d. Are not based exclusively on news disseminated through the mass media; e. Are sent after exhausting local remedies, if any, unless it is obvious that this procedure is unduly prolonged; f. Are submitted within a reasonable time from the date local remedies were exhausted or from the date set by the Court as being the commencement of the time limit within which it shall be seized with the matter; and g. Do not deal with cases which have been settled by those States involved in accordance with the principles of the Charter of the United Nations, or the Constitutive Act of the African Union, or the provisions of the Charter. 33. The Respondent State raises an objection to the admissibility of the Application in relation to non-exhaustion of local remedies. The Court will therefore consider the said objection before examining other conditions of admissibility if necessary. A. Objection based on non-exhaustion of local remedies 34. Citing the decision of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (hereinafter referred to as “the Commission”) in Southern African Human rights NGO Network and Others v. Tanzania, the Respondent State submits that the exhaustion of local remedies is an essential principle in international law and that the principle requires a complainant to “utilise all legal remedies” in the domestic courts before seizing the international body like the Court. 9