Guinean junta leader Moussa Dadis Camara arrived in Burkina Faso yesterday from Morocco after more than a month recovering from a failed attempt to assassinate him.
With two people supporting him, Mr Camara walked off the Moroccan aircraft at the military airport in the Burkina Faso capital Ouagadougou, a witness said.
Mr Camara is in Burkina Faso to continue his recovery from a December assassination attempt, the Burkinabe Foreign Ministry said today.
"After more than a month of treatment, and taking account of the development of his state of health, Moussa Dadis Camara arrived in Ouagadougou to continue his convalescence," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Mr Camara unexpectedly landed in Burkina Faso from Morocco late yesterday.
His re-emergence in public comes just days after the senior junta official in his absence pledged to pave the way for a transition to civilian rule, raising hopes of an end to a crisis in the world's top exporter of the aluminium ore bauxite.
Burkina Faso president Blaise Compaore has led mediation efforts between the junta and the opposition since Mr Camara seized power in a 2008 coup.
Mr Camara, whom a UN report has held to blame for the September 28th killing by security forces of more than 150 pro-democracy marchers, was wounded in the head in a December 3rd attack by a former aide and has spent the last month in a Moroccan hospital.
Reuters