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. 33. The Court notes that the Respondent State raises an objection to admissibility of the application on the ground of non-exhaustion of local remedies. The Court will, therefore, consider the said objection before examining other conditions of admissibility, if necessary. A. Objection based on non-exhaustion of local remedies 34. The Respondent State contends that the application does not meet the requirement of exhaustion of local remedies given that the Applicant did not attempt to exercise other existing remedies such as the filing of a constitutional petition before the High Court. 35. The Applicant, on his part, prays the Court to declare that the application is admissible in accordance with Articles 5(3) 6(1) and 7 of the Protocol. 9