VII. ADMISSIBILITY
29.
Article 6(2) of the Protocol provides that:
The Court shall rule on the admissibility of cases taking into account
the provisions of article 56 of the Charter.
30.
In accordance with Rule 50(1) of the Rules of Court,
The Court shall ascertain the admissibility of an Application filed before
it in accordance with Article 56 of the Charter, Article 6(2) of the
Protocol and these Rules.
31.
Rule 50(2) of the Rules, which, in substance restates the provisions of
Article 56 of the Charter, provides as follows:
Applications filed before the Court shall comply with all of the following
conditions:
a.
Indicate their authors even if the latter request anonymity;
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.
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 the Court is 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 Charter of the Organization of African
Unity or the provisions of the Charter.
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