4. not be based exclusively on news disseminated through the mass media; 5. be filed after the exhaustion local remedies, if any, unless it is obvious that this procedure is unduly prolonged; 6. be filed 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 of the matter; and 7. not raise any matter or issues previously settled by the parties in accordance with the principles of the Charter of the United Nations, the Constitutive Act of the African Union, the provisions of the Charter or of any legal instrument of the African Union. 39. The Court notes that the conditions of admissibility set out in Rule 40 of the Rules are not in contention between the parties, as the Respondent State having decided not to take part in the proceedings did not raise any objections to the admissibility of the Application. However, pursuant to Rule 39(1) of its Rules, the Court is obliged to determine the admissibility of the Application. 40. It is clear from the record that the Applicant is identified. The Application is not incompatible with the Constitutive Act of the African Charter. based It is not written in disparaging exclusively on information or insulting disseminated Union and language and through the mass the is not media. There is also nothing on the record to indicate that the present Application concerns a case which has been settled in accordance with either the principles of the United Nations Charter, the OAU Charter or the provisions of the Charter. 41. With regards to the exhaustion of local remedies, the Court reiterates, as it has established in its case law, that the local remedies which the Applicants 12