Plane carrying Guinea’s ex-junta chief diverts to Ghana

A plane has landed at Ghana’s Kotoka International Airport (KIA) carrying a former military junta chief of Guinea Moussa Dadis Camara. Camara was heading back to Conakry to campaign for his presidential bid in October but authorities denied him landing right and had to divert to Ghana.

Camara, who is on exile in Burkina Faso, having survived an assassination attempt a year after taking power in 2009, on Wednesday left Ouagadougou on a flight to Guinea with a planned layover in Abidjan, the AFP reported.

According to a spokesman for Camara’s Patriotic Front for Democracy and Development (FPDD) Maxime Manimou, the plane was blocked from landing in Abidjan and forced to land in Ghana.