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The Guinean junta granted former President Alpha Condé leave Conakry on Monday to undergo medical examinations in the United Arab Emirates. She allows him a stay of up to one month, she said on Tuesday.
The information had been circulating for a few hours. The ousted president of the Guinea Alpha Conde was able to leave Conakry on Monday to receive medical treatment for United Arab Emirates, declared Tuesday January 18 the military junta in power, which gave its prior agreement to this departure for a period of one month maximum.
The junta released a video on social media with the caption indicating that the 83-year-old former president, removed from power by a military coup in 2021, had left for treatment in the United Arab Emirates.
Alpha Condé, escorted and trudging along, goes to an unidentified airport before boarding a plane, according to these images.
“It is urgent for me to go for treatment, it is my concern,” he said. “I’m sure to be well looked following” there.
A request from ECOWAS
At the head of the country for nearly eleven years, Alpha Condé was overthrown on September 5, 2021 by Colonel Mamady Doumbouya and his men. He was held incommunicado for twelve weeks until the junta allowed him to stay with his wife in the suburbs of Conakry.
The junta is said to have been reluctant to let him leave the country, fearing plots on his part once morest the new power, but it authorized him to leave the country at the end of December for medical examinations.
His release was one of the demands of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), with the holding of elections within six months. This body suspended Guinea and individually sanctioned members of the junta led by Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, who has had himself invested as transitional president.
Alpha Condé has been authorized to leave Guinea when the justice has just ordered the opening of investigations into the alleged crimes committed under his presidency.
With AFP
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