The ruling junta in Guinea has once more authorized the former president ousted in 2021 Alpha Condé to travel abroad for medical reasons, indicates a press release consulted on Saturday on social networks.
The National Rally Committee for Development (CNRD), the junta that deposed Alpha Condé on September 5, 2021 following almost eleven years of presidency, invokes in this press release “respect for the dignity and integrity” of the former -head of state as well as “humanitarian reasons”.
The press release speaks of leaving for “medical appointments” abroad, without specifying his destination or the duration of his stay outside Guinea. He doesn’t say anything regarding his health either.
Mr. Condé, 84, is authorized to leave the country despite the proceedings initiated in early May once morest him and around thirty former senior officials of his presidency for assassinations, acts of torture and kidnappings.
The lawsuits were opened following the legal action of a collective aimed at the repression which characterized the last years of the Condé presidency and which left dozens dead.
The junta led by Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, who in the meantime has made himself president, had held Mr. Condé incommunicado for weeks following having ousted him from power. She had allowed him in January to go and receive treatment in the United Arab Emirates, despite the reluctance that was lent to the soldiers in the face of the risk of actions on his part from abroad once morest the power.
He returned on April 9.
The junta announced on April 22 that he was now “free” of his movements. But he has not been seen in public since then.
