The Court comprising: Sophia A.B. AKUFFO, President; Bernard Vice-President; Gerard NIYUNGEKO, Fatsah OUGUERGOUZ, Elsie N. THOMPSON, Sylvain El Hadji GUISSE ORE, and M. NGOEPE, Duncan TAMBALA, Kimelabalou ABA — Judges and Robert ENO -Registrar, In conformity with Article 22 of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the establishment of an African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights and Rule 8(2) of the Rules of Court, (the Rules), Judge Augustino S.L. Ramadhani, member of the Court and Tanzanian national, did not hear the case. In the matter of: KARATA ERNEST AND OTHERS Applicants Vv. THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA Respondent 1. By an Application filed with the Registry of the Court on 27 January 2012, some former employees of the East African Community, organization which was Tanzania before the dissolved African in 1977, Court on an African regional brought the United Human and Peoples’ Republic of Rights for allegedly violating some of their basic rights. 2. The Application was placed on the cause list on 30 January 2012 under the title “Karata Ernest and Others v. the United Republic of Tanzania’, Application No. 001/2012. 3. Ina letter, dated 25 October 2012, addressed to the Court, Mr. Karata Ernest and six (6) other former employees of the defunct organization stated that they had never filed any Application with the Court nor had they authorized anyone to use their names for that purpose. 2 CD