Guinea’s President Mamady Doumbouya said over the week-end that his decision to permit two imprisoned former officials to seek treatment abroad did not amount to presidential pardons or amnesty.
Former Prime Minister Ibrahima Kassory Fofana travelled to Paris for medical care on September 18, 2026, while former parliamentary speaker Amadou Damaro Camara was authorised to receive treatment in Atlanta, United States.
Doumbouya described the decision as an exceptional humanitarian measure, stressing that both men remained convicted. Fofana, 72, was sentenced to five years in prison in February 2025 for corruption and embezzling public funds from social welfare programmes. His sentence was reduced to three years and nine months in July 2026.
Camara, 74, was sentenced to four years in December 2024 for embezzlement and illicit enrichment involving 15 billion Guinean francs earmarked for a new parliamentary headquarters. An appeals court reduced his sentence to three years and six months in May 2025.
Both men served under former President Alpha Condé, who was overthrown by Doumbouya in a military coup in September 2021.