The National Rally Committee for Development (CNRD), the junta that deposed Alpha Condé on September 5, 2021 after almost eleven years of presidency, has again authorized the former president ousted in 2021 Alpha Condé to travel abroad for medical reasons.
She invokes in a statement "
respect for the dignity and integrity
" of the former head of state as well as "
humanitarian reasons
".
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The press release speaks of departure for "
medical appointments
" abroad, without specifying its destination or the duration of its stay outside Guinea.
He doesn't say anything about his health either.
At 84, Alpha Condé is authorized to leave the country despite the proceedings initiated in early May against 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 after 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 against the power.
He returned on April 9.
The junta announced on April 22 that he was now "
free
" to move around.
But he has not been seen in public since then.