40. The Court notes that 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 seised 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 African Union or the provisions of the Charter. 41. In the present case, the Respondent State has raised an objection to the admissibility of the Application questioning the Applicant’s exhaustion of local remedies. The Court will thus consider the objection based on nonexhaustion of local remedies (A) before assessing other admissibility requirements (B). A. Objection alleging non-exhaustion of domestic remedies 42. The Respondent State, citing Article 56(5) of the Charter and Rule 50(2)(e) of the Rules,14 argues that this Application is inadmissible due to the 14 Rule 40(5), Rules of Court, 2010. 12

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