Now Therefore:
22.
The Court finds that there is a situation of extreme grav
ity and
urgency, as well as a risk of irreparable harm to the Ogie
k of the Mau
Forest and also prejudice to the substantive matter before
the Court;
23.
Consequently, the Court concludes that the circumsta
nces
require it to order, as a matter of urgency, provisional mea
sures, in
accordance with Article 27 (2) of the Protocol and Rule
51 of its
Rules, to preserve the status quo ante pending the dete
rmination of
the Court on the main application;
24.
For the avoidance of doubt, the measures the Court will
order
will necessarily be provisional in nature and will not
in any way
prejudge the findings the Court might make on its juris
diction, the
admissibility of the application and the merits of the case ;
25.
For these reasons,
THE COURT unanimously grants the Applicant's requ
est and hereby
provisionally ORDERS that:
1) The Respondent immediately reinstates the restriction
s it had
imposed on land transactions in the Mau Forest Complex
and
refrains from any act or thing that would or might irrep
arably
prejudice the main application before the Court, until the
final
determination of the said application.
2) The Respondent reports to the Court within a period
of fifteen
(15) days from the date of receipt hereof, on the mea
sures
taken to implement this Order.
Done at Arusha, this fifteenth day of March in the year Two
Thousand and
Thirteen, in English and French, the English text being auth
oritative.
Signed:
Sophia A.B. AKUFFO , President
Fatsah OUGUERGOUZ, Vice-President (
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