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.
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.
32. The Court notes that the conditions of admissibility set out in Rule 50(2) of
the Rules are not in contention between the Parties, as the Respondent
State did not to take part in the proceedings. However, pursuant to Rule
50(1) of the Rules, the Court is required to determine if the Application fulfils
all the admissibility requirements as set out in Rule 50(2).
33. From the record, the Court notes that, the Applicant has been identified by
name in fulfilment of Rule 50(2)(a) of the Rules.
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