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. 40. The Court notes that the Respondent State raises objections to the admissibility of the Application in relation to (A) non-exhaustion of local remedies and (B) the Application having not been filed within a reasonable time. The Court will thus consider these objections before examining other conditions of admissibility, if necessary. A. Objection based on non-exhaustion of local remedies 41. The Respondent State submits that the present Application does not fulfil the admissibility condition under Article 56(5) of the Charter, which requires that seizure of the Court shall be after exhaustion of local remedies, if any, unless such remedies have been unduly prolonged. 42. The Respondent State argues that even though the Applicant claims that he was not notified of the date of the hearings of his appeal, which led him to miss the hearings, he still had the opportunity to raise this allegation in 11

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