Communication 341/07 - Equality Now v Ethiopia over six months to get the same. They also stated that while awaiting the official copy of the said decision, they hired a local lawyer to collect all official Court decisions from all the relevant Courts that heard this matter, including the Guna Woreda Court, the Arsi Zone High Court, and the Oromiya Supreme Court whose language of instruction is Oromiya. They state that getting all the official records in all these Courts took time due to Government bureaucracy. 69. Furthermore, the Complainants submit that once these documents were received towards the end of 2006, they had to be officially translated from Oromiya and Amharic into English, for purposes of analysis and presentation to the Commission. They argue that given the circumstances mentioned above, the Communication was filed before the Commission within reasonable time, and also that they have subsequently met all deadlines for submissions since the filing of the Communication. 70. In terms of Article 56(7), the Complainants submit that the Communication does not deal with a case involving the Respondent State that has already been settled in accordance with the principles of the United Nations or the Charter of the OAU or the African Charter, and also that the Communication has not been brought before another international or regional mechanism for consideration. 71. The Complainants submit that in 2008, at the request of the Respondent State, the Commission facilitated an amicable settlement between the Parties, whereupon the Complainants, on behalf of the Victim, raised concerns and conditions for settlement. They state however that despite several discussions and communications on behalf of the Victim over a period of five years, the Respondent State failed to meet the conditions laid out for settlement, and in fact failed to respond in writing to the Complainants' concerns. They therefore requested the African Commission to make a determination on the Admissibility of the matter. THE AFRICAN COMMISSION'S ANALYSIS ON ADMISSIBILITY 72. The Admissibility of Communications submitted before the African Commission in accordance with Article 55 of the Charter, is governed by the requirements of Article 56 of the same Charter, which sets out seven conditions which must be cumulatively complied with, for any Communication to be Admissible. Failure to satisfy any one or more of the above requirements renders the Communication inadmissible, unless the Complainant provides sufficient justifications as to why any of the requirements could not be met.

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