Vil. ADMISSIBILITY OF THE APPLICATION 38. According to the aforesaid Rule 39 of its Rules, “the Court shall conduct preliminary examination ... of the admissibility of the Application in accordance with Articles 50 and 56 of the Charter, and Rule 40 of these Rules’. 39. According to Article 6(2) of the Protocol, “the Court shall rule on the admissibility of cases taking into account the provisions of Article 56 of the Charter”. 40. Rule 40 of the Rules of Court which substantially restates the content of Article 56 of the Charter provides as follows: “Pursuant to the provisions of article 56 of the Charter to which article 6(2) of the . disclose the identity of the Applicant notwithstanding the latter’s request for anonymity; ak oN = Protocol refers, applications to the Court shall comply with the following conditions: comply with the Constitutive Act of the African Union or the Charter; do not contain any disparaging or insulting language; are not based exclusively on news disseminated through the mass media; are filed after exhausting local remedies, if any, unless it is obvious that this procedure is unduly prolonged; 6. are filed within a reasonable period from the time 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. do 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 other legal instrument of the African Union’. 41. Whereas some of the above requirements are not in contention between the Parties, the Respondent State raised objections on incompatibility of the Application with the SAS Constitutive Act of the African Union and the Charter, exhaustion of local remedies and the time limit for seizure of the Court. Le ye co&O

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