Former President of Mali, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, who was recently overthrown in a coup, left the hospital on Thursday after being treated for a mini-stroke.
According to the source, Keita may head to the United Arab Emirates for further treatment.
A medical source at the private health facility in the capital, Bamako, where the president was treated said, “Everything is going well. The test results look good.”
A member of Keita’s entourage disclosed to AFP that he had returned home in the evening, saying that “the United Arab Emirates has agreed to send a medical plane to pick him up,” he added that the details would still be worked out.
On August 18, Keita was forced out of office by some young military officers, they staged an uprising at a base near Bamako before heading into the city, where they seized Keita and other leaders.
Under pressure by the West African bloc ECOWAS, the junta that emerged from the rebellion released Keita on August 27 and returned him to his residence in Bamako, under surveillance.
Keita who was 75, was admitted to the private hospital on Tuesday after suffering.
This occurred when the blood supply to the brain was disrupted for a few minutes, this caused stroke-like symptoms such as numbness on one side of the body, difficult vision or speech understanding confusion.
These events were seen seriously by doctors as they could be a precursor for a full-fledged stroke.
Earlier on Thursday, the head of Mali’s new junta visited the man he overthrown in the hospital.
“A delegation from the ruling military, led by Colonel Assimi Goita, visited (the) former president in the clinic,” a doctor told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Relatives of Keita confirmed the visit.
The junta has said that Keita is authorised to leave the country for medical care if need be.
Keita was ousted two years into his second five-year term.
In the weeks before the coup, he had been struggling with protests fuelled by his handling of a jihadist insurgency and failure to turn around Mali’s floundering economy.
