00:00Burundi's former Prime Minister General Alain Guillaume Bunyoni has been released from prison on medical grounds nearly three years after
00:08being sentenced to life for conspiring against the president.
00:12A judicial source confirmed Bunyoni was granted provisional release for medical reasons Wednesday.
00:18He has been hospitalized since October at the Gitega Regional Hospital.
00:22The once powerful general who served as Prime Minister from 2020 until his dismissal in 2022 was convicted in late
00:312023 of attempting to overthrow the government and threatening President Ivarish Tendi Aishimi's life.
00:38His health deteriorated sharply in detention.
00:42Bunyoni was taken by ambulance from the hospital to his home in Bujumbura, ending a dramatic call for the man
00:48once considered the regime's number two.
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