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On June 13, 2014, the African Court on Human and People’s Rights (the Court) issued its ruling on reparations in Reverend Christopher Mtikila v. United Republic of Tanzania. The Court held that Reverend Mtikila was not entitled to reparations for Tanzania’s enactment of a Constitutional amendment requiring election candidates to be a member of a political party, which the Court found, in its earlier judgment of June 14, 2013, to breach Articles 2 (freedom from discrimination), 3 (equal protection), 10 (freedom of association), and 13(1) (right to participate in government) of the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights. The Court held that the applicant had “failed to produce any evidence” to support his claim that both pecuniary and moral damage had been caused to him by the facts of this case.