and Peoples' Rights (hereinafter referred to as "the Charter") on 21 October 1986 and to the Protocol on 25 May 2004. It also deposited on 22 January 2013, the Declaration prescribed under Article 34(6) of the Protocol by which it accepted the jurisdiction of the Governmental notified the Court to Organisations. Chairperson receive On applications 29 of the African February Union from 2016, individuals the Commission and Non- Respondent State of its intention to withdraw the said Declaration. The African Union Commission transmitted to the Court, the notice of withdrawal on 3 March 2016. By a Ruling dated 3 June 2016, the Court decided that the withdrawal by the Respondent State would take effect from 1 March 2017.1 SUBJECT OF THE APPLICATION Facts of the matter It is apparent from the record, that, on 17 November 2009, following his success in a recruitment test, the Applicant signed an employment contract for the position of Head of the Electricity Planning Corporation and and Strategy Section at the Rwanda Water and (hereinafter referred to as “RECO & RWASCO’), Water and Sanitation Authority (EWSA). On State-owned Sanitation Rwanda Corporation which later became the Energy, 13 April 2010, the Applicant was dismissed without notice. The Applicant alleges that he was recruited in accordance with the procedures established by Law No. 22/2002 of 9 July 2002 on the General Rules and Regulations governing the Rwandan Civil Service. He therefore considers that he was a civil servant and that his dismissal should be governed by the applicable law in that regard. 1 See Ingabire Victoire Umuhoza v. Republic of Rwanda (Jurisdiction) (2016) 1 AfCLR 540 § 67. 2