aforementioned,
the
Court
finds
that
it has
jurisdiction
ratione
personae.
Preliminary objections on admissibility
49.
The Respondent raises preliminary objections
on admissibility
based on different components of the requirements of Article 56 of
the Charter. These are on incompatibility of the Application with the
Charter
and
the Constitutive Act of the African
Union,
on
non-
exhaustion of local remedies and in the alternative thereto, that the
Application has not been filed within a reasonable time from when
local remedies were exhausted.
I.
Incompatibility of the Application with the Charter and
the Constitutive Act of the African Union
50.
The
Respondent
contends
that
the
Application
does
not
comply with the Constitutive Act of the African Union and the Charter
as it does
not address
principles enshrined
issues compatible with the Charter or the
in the Charter of the Organisation
of African
Unity and further, that no provisions of the African Charter have been
referenced in the Application.
51.
56(2)
TheApplicant avers that he has met the requirements of Article
of the
Charter
which
This
stipulate
is because,
that
compatible
thereto.
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applications
Court
has
Chacha
must
be
decided,
v The
in
United
Republic of Tanzania that, so long as the rights alleged to have been
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