based exclusively on information disseminated through the media. There is
also nothing on the record to indicate that the present Application concerns
a case which has been settled in accordance with either the principles of
the
United
Nations
Charter,
the
OAU
Charter
or the
provisions
of the
Charter.
36. With regard to the exhaustion of local remedies, the Court
as it has established in its case-law:
exhausted
reiterates that,
"... the remedies which
by the Applicants are ordinary judicial remedies’,
must
be
unless it is
clear that such remedies are not available, effective and sufficient or that
the procedure provided for exhausting them is unduly prolonged.®
37. Having regards to the facts of the case, the Court finds that the Applicant
had instituted a case before the Court of First Instance, which dismissed it
in a judgment delivered on 4 February 2014. He then appealed against the
decision to the Supreme Court, which upheld the decision of the Court of
First Instance on 24 November 2014. The Court, therefore, finds that the
Applicant has exhausted the available local remedies.
38. With regard to the conditions for filing applications within a reasonable time,
the Court notes that Article 56(6) of the Charter does not specify any time
‘limit within which a case must be-brought before it. Rule 40(6) of the Rules
of Court, which essentially
restates the provisions of Article 56(6) of the
Charter, simply requires the Application to "be filed 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.
4 Mohamed Abubakari v. Tanzania (merits) (2016) 1AfCLR 599 § 64. See also Alex Thomas v. Tanzania
(merits) (2015) 1 ACCR 465 § 64 and Wilfred Onyango Nganyi v. Tanzania (merits) op.cit., § 95.
> Lohé Issa Konaté v. Burkina Faso (merits) (2014) 1 AfCLR 314, § 77. See also Peter Joseph Chacha v.
Tanzania (admissibility) (2014) 1 AfCLR 398, § 40.
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