Guinea's exiled former Lord of the autocratic junta; Moussa Dadis Camara claims that the Guinean authorities are blocking him from returning home.

His attempt to return via Ivory Coast this week failed when his flight was refused permission to land in Abidjan. On Thursday, President Conde denied involvement, saying Ivory Coast was a sovereign country.

Capt Camara says he wants to stand for president in October's elections and the deadline to register is on Tuesday. He has been living in Burkina Faso since an assassination attempt in December 2009.

"I think President Alpha Conde does not want me to come back home," Capt Camara told our source.

"The instructions [for the plane not to land] came from Conakry not Ivory Coast."

Capt Camara, who seized power in 2008 when long-time leader Lansana Conte died, announced his attention in May to stand as the presidential candidate for his Patriotic Front for Democracy and Development (FPDD) party.

Two months later, Guinean judges indicted him for his role in a 2009 massacre in the capital, Conakry, in which more than 150 people protesting against the military rule were killed.