Charter”) on 31 March 1992 and to the Protocol on the Establishment of an African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (hereinafter referred to as “the Protocol”) on 25 January 2004. On 23 July 2013, the Respondent State also deposited the Declaration provided for in Article 34(6) of the Protocol (hereinafter referred to as “the Declaration”) by virtue of which it accepted the jurisdiction of the Court to receive applications from individuals and NonGovernmental Organizations having observer status with the Commission. On 29 April 2020, the Respondent State deposited with the Chairperson of the African Union Commission the instrument of withdrawal of its Declaration. The Court held that this withdrawal has no bearing on pending and new cases filed before the withdrawal came into effect, that is, one (1) year after its deposit, which is on 30 April 2021. .1 II. SUBJECT OF THE APPLICATION A. Facts of the matter 3. It emerges from the Application that in 1980, the Respondent State acting through the Real Estate Sales Service (SVI), expropriated a parcel of land of forty (40) hectares, forty-four (44) ares and sixty-two (62) centiares located in Abidjan-Yopougon Kouté, belonging to the Baedan family. On the parcel of land thus expropriated, the Respondent State proceeded, first, to construct the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) in 1980 and, subsequently, the Cité Policière de la Brigade Anti-Émeutes (Cité Policière BAE) in 1998. 4. On 13 January 2007, following a compensation procedure initiated by the Applicants, the Tribunal of First Instance of Yopougon granted their claim and awarded them the amount of Eight Hundred and Thirty-nine Million, Four Hundred and Eighty-eight Thousand (839,488,000) CFA Francs as 1 Suy Bi Gohore Émile and Others v. Republic of Côte d'Ivoire (merits and reparations) (15 July 2020) 4 AfCLR 406, § 67; Ingabire Victoire Umuhoza v. Republic of Rwanda (jurisdiction) (3 June 2016) 1 AfCLR 540, § 69. 2