61. Pursuant to Rule 50(1) of the Rules “the Court shall ascertain the admissibility of an Application filed before it in accordance with Article 56 of the Charter, Article 6(2) of the Protocol and these Rules”. 62. Rule 50(2) of the Rules which essentially restates Article 56 of the Charter, reads as follows: 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 the Court is seised with the matter, and g. Not concern matters which have been settled by the States concerned in accordance with the principles of the Charter of the United Nations, the Constitutive Act of the African Union or the provisions of the Charter. 63. The Respondent State raises an objection based on non-exhaustion of local remedies, on which the Court will rule before considering other admissibility requirements, if necessary. i. Objection based on non-exhaustion of local remedies 64. The Respondent State submits that an individual may bring a dispute against his state before an international court only after he/she has seized 16