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 seized 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.
A. Objections to the admissibility of the Application
43. The Respondent State raises two objections to the admissibility of the
Application. The first objection relates to the requirement of exhaustion of
local remedies and the second relates to whether the Application was filed
within a reasonable time. The Court will now consider these objections
before examining other conditions of admissibility if necessary.
i.
Objection based on non-exhaustion of local remedies
44. The Respondent State argues that the Applicant is raising, before this
Court, an allegation which he never raised before Court of Appeal of
Tanzania. The Respondent State submits that the Applicant is raising the
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