conditions: a. lndicate their authors even if the latter request anonymity; b. Are compatible with the Constitutive Act of the African Union and with the Charter; c. Not contain any disparaging or insulting language directed against the State concerned and its institutions or the African Union; d. 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. Be filed 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; 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 31. In the instant case, the Court notes that the Respondent State raises an objection to the admissibility of the application based on non-exhaustion of local remedies. The Court will, first, consider the said objection before examining other admissibility requirements, if necessary. A. Objection based on non-exhaustion of local remedies 32. The Respondent State submits that the present Application is inadmissible insofar as the allegations raised therein were never examined by domestic courts and, therefore, do not meet the requirement under Article 56(5) of the Charter. In its view, the Applicant did not seize the competent national bodies seeking settlement of the dispute or remediation of the violations she alleges before this Court. * 9

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