The man who led a 2008 coup in Guinea and whose brief rule was marked by a stadium massacre against peaceful demonstrators returned to the West African country Wednesday after more than a decade in exile. However, another coup earlier this year in Guinea put a military junta in power that was more amenable to Camara's return. Camara's exile to Burkina Faso eventually paved the way for Guinea's first democratic elections since independence from France, which put Alpha Conde in power. The ex-coup leader did manage to make a brief visit to Guinea in 2013 to attend his mother's funeral, crossing at a land border with Liberia. Conde ultimately won re-election in October 2020, only to be deposed in the military coup less than a year later.

Source: Ethiopian News December 22, 2021 22:39 UTC