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AU reforms: Ruto calls for tough sanctions on coup plotters

President William Ruto chairs African Union Institutional Reform Ad Hoc Committee Meeting of Heads of State in Luanda, Angola on November 26, 2025. [PCS]

A team led by President William Ruto has proposed more severe punishments for people who plot and execute hostile takeovers of regimes that came to power through legal means, amid rising cases of coups across Africa.

In a report presented during the second session of the Summit of the Heads of State and Government in Luanda, Angola, on Tuesday, November 25, the AU Institutional Reform Committee called for stunner action to deter future coups.

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