Two days after his hospitalization due to a short stroke, the deposed president of Mali, Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, left the clinic on Thursday, September 3.

The former head of state, known as "IBK", "left the clinic on Thursday. Everything is fine, the controls are good. His evacuation to the outside is becoming clearer," said a medical source from the Pasteur clinic Bamako, where he was admitted two weeks after being deposed by a military coup.

A departure to the United Arab Emirates?

"The president came home this evening. The United Arab Emirates have agreed to send a medical plane to pick him up and we are awaiting the modalities. The president is fine," said a member of his entourage speaking in on condition of anonymity.

The former president had received a visit earlier in the day from the head of the ruling junta, according to family and medical sources.

"A delegation of the military in power, led by its leader, Colonel Assimi Goïta, visited former president Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta in the clinic where he is," said a doctor.

Relatives of the former head of state confirmed the visit.

Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, 75, was hospitalized on Tuesday.

He was the victim of a transient ischemic attack, that is to say a cerebrovascular accident which generally lasts only a few minutes but which constitutes a warning signal for the risk of subsequent occurrence of a heart attack.

He was deposed by a group of officers on August 18 after seven years at the head of this country at war against the jihadists and months of protest.

He announced his resignation on television the same evening, after being taken from his home by soldiers.

The former leader was able to return to his home in Bamako on August 27, according to the junta.

He has not been seen in public since and is under house arrest with restricted access to the phone and the Internet, according to those around him.

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) had obtained from the junta that it agrees to let him leave the country if necessary for medical treatment.

With AFP

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