local remedies since the Applicants were not required to exhaust local remedies. Therefore, the Court is required to set a date as the commencement of the time limit. 94. In this regard, the Court notes that the Respondent State deposited its Declaration on 29 March 2010 and therefore, the Applicants could only seize the Court after that date. The Applicants filed their Application on 26 July 2018, that is, eight years and four months after the Respondent State deposited its Declaration. The Court will therefore determine if the above time is reasonable according to Rule 50(2)(f) of the Rules. 95. The Court notes that, even though, it took the Applicants eight years and four months to file the case, the alleged violations are continuing, in that, the PWA allegedly continue to face persecutions, attacks and killings on the basis of their albinism, and therefore the time-limit does not apply as the Applicants could have seized the Court at any point as long as the alleged violations persisted.25 96. In view of the above, the Court finds that the Application was filed within a reasonable time in compliance with Article 56(6) of the Charter. 97. With regards to whether the Application concerns a case which has already been 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 in accordance with Rule 50(2)(g) of the Rules; the Court notes that the Applicants submitted that, three cases26 filed by PWA were decided by the RPD Committee. 98. Given the above, the Court must ascertain whether the afore-mentioned decisions of the RPD Committee constitute settlement as contemplated under Article 56(7) of the Charter. In doing so, the Court recalls as it has 25 Harold Munthali v. Republic of Malawi, ACtHPR, Application No. 022/2017, Judgment of 23 June 2022, § 63. 26 UNCRPD, Mr X v. United Republic of Tanzania, CRPD/C/18/D/22/2014, Mr Y v. United Republic of Tanzania, CRPD/C/20/D/23/2014, Ms Z v. United Republic of Tanzania, CRPD/C/22/D/24/2014. 24

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