Rule 40Conditions for Admissibility of ApplicationsPursuant to the provisions of article 56 of the Charter to which article 6(2) ofthe Protocol refers, applications to the Court shall comply with the followingconditions:1. disclose the identity of the Applicant notwithstanding the latter’srequest for anonymity;2. comply with the Constitutive Act of the Union and the Charter ;3. not contain any disparaging or insulting language;4. not be based exclusively on news disseminated through the massmedia;5. be filed after exhausting local remedies, if any, unless it is obviousthat this procedure is unduly prolonged;6. be filed within a reasonable time from the date local remedies wereexhausted or from the date set by the Court as being thecommencement of the time limit within which it shall be seized withthe matter; and 277. not raise any mater or issues previously settled by the parties inaccordance with the principles of the Charter of the United Nations,the Constitutive Act of the African Union, the provisions of the Charteror of any legal instrument of the African Union