Former Guinean President Alpha Conde, ousted in a coup in September, boarded a plane on Monday to go abroad for a medical check-up, two sources said, without revealing his destination.
Alpha Conde obtained permission from Mamadi Doumbouya to leave the country to receive treatment in Abu Dhabi. He is accompanied.
Alpha Condé was overthrown in September 2021 by colonel Mamady Dumbuya. He then spent more than four months in the custody of the military junta that deposed him. His ouster came less than a year after he ran and won a third term in office despite widespread protests.
The regional bloc ECOWAS and other members of the international community had called for Conde’s immediate release ever since he was detained.
But Guinea’s new military rulers vowed that Conde wouldn’t be allowed to leave the country and seek exile.
