The African Court dismissed DRC’s request for expedited procedure, holding it could not abridge defence-related time limits, but listed the case for priority handling.
The Court found that the circumstances reveal urgency and a real risk of irreparable harm to the applicant due to the mandate of arrest and risk of permanent loss of assets, warranting suspension of the execution of the CRIET judgment pending the Court's decision on the merits.
The African Commission declined to seize a complaint challenging Egypt’s rent control regime, finding no demonstration of exhaustion of domestic remedies or filing within a reasonable time.
The African Commission held the complaint inadmissible because the complainants had not exhausted local remedies before alleging unlawful eviction and related Charter violations.
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The Nigerian government, through direct action and failure to regulate or prevent abuses by oil companies and security forces, violated the rights to health, environment, property, housing, food, and life of the Ogoni people under the African Charter by failing to respect, protect, promote, and fulfil these rights, and by facilitating or condoning acts that led to environmental degradation, destruction of property and food sources, forced evictions, and violence.