The condemnation came from the head of the AU’s Peace and Security Council,Bankole Adeoye and the chairman of the African Union Commission Moussa Faki Mahamat, on the last day of its annual summit.
The insurrections were among the main issues expected to be discussed at the summit, along with the AU’s ties to Israel and its response to a grinding war in the north of host country, Ethiopia.
Less than two weeks before the summit began, Burkina Faso became the fourth country to be suspended by the AU after disgruntled soldiers toppled President Roch Marc Christian Kabore.
Guinea, Mali and Sudan are also currently suspended.
Adeoye, said there have never been a time in the history of the African Union that it has had four coups in one calendar year.
But the AU has been accused of an inconsistent response, notably by not suspending Chad after a military council took over following the death of longtime President Idriss Deby Itno on the battlefield last April.
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