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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
Saliou Samb

Guinea's ousted president Conde freed from house arrest

FILE PHOTO: Then Guinea President Alpha Conde gives a speech at the Presidential Palace in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, April 26, 2019. REUTERS/Thierry Gouegnon/File Photo

Guinea's former president Alpha Conde has been freed from house arrest more than seven months after he was ousted in a military coup, the interim government said on state television on Friday.

Conde, 84, had been detained since last September, when special forces troops overthrew him on allegations of fostering endemic state corruption.

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