Guinea: Junta leader's return causes panic

  1. Posted on Wednesday 13 January 2010 - 16:34
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    Kingsley Kobo, AfricaNews reporter in Abidjan, Ivory Coast
    Guinean wounded leader Moussa Dadis Camara arrived in West Africa's Burkina Faso on Tuesday from Morocco after more than a month of hospitalization following a failed assassination attempt on him last December. He was supported by two people as he walked off the Moroccan airplane at a military airbase.
    Dadis Camara
    No reasons have been given why he had travelled to Burkina Faso and authorities were not immediately available to comment, according to Reuters.

    Burkinabe President Blaise Compaore has led mediation efforts between the junta and the opposition since Camara seized power in a 2008 coup.

    “We have just found out about this. For the moment we have no other information about the circumstances of his transfer," Guinean junta’s spokesman Idrissa Cherif was quoted as saying.

    The return of Camara may change things more in the West African nation and world's top exporter of aluminum ore and bauxite.

    His deputy, Defense Minister Sekouba Konate, has ruled the country in the meantime, raising hopes of an end to the crisis by agreeing to let an opposition-led transition government prepare the way for elections.

    A U.N. report blames Camara for the September 28 killing by security forces of more than 150 pro-democracy protesters. He was shot in the head on December 3, 2009 by a former aide and was flown to Morocco for treatment.

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