{"id":1654,"date":"2015-06-16T05:00:16","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T05:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pr.asianetpakistan.com\/?p=18226"},"modified":"2015-06-16T05:00:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T05:00:16","slug":"new-campaign-launched-focusing-on-guineas-latest-dictatorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/new-campaign-launched-focusing-on-guineas-latest-dictatorship\/","title":{"rendered":"New Campaign Launched Focusing on Guinea\u2019s Latest Dictatorship"},"content":{"rendered":"
– ShadesOfConde.org highlights the erosion of democracy and failed economic policies under President Alpha Conde<\/i><\/p>\n
ACCRA, Ghana\u00a0and LAGOS, Nigeria, June 15,\u00a02015 \/ PRNewswire — Today, the leading African organisations IMANI Center (Ghana) and Initiative for Public Policy Analysis (Nigeria) launched a public campaign calling attention to the alarming erosion of democracy and economic opportunity for Guineans under President Alpha Cond\u00e9.<\/p>\n
As African leaders gather in South Africa for the Leaders’ Day meetings at the African Union, ShadesOfConde<\/a> has been launched to bring attention to the worsening situation in Guinea, ahead of the crucial Presidential election in October 2015.<\/p>\n Franklin Cudjoe, Director of IMANI Center, Ghana, said the following about decline of democracy in Guinea:<\/p>\n “President Alpha Cond\u00e9 is using every measure available to him to evade scrutiny and accountability \u2013 he has refused to hold local elections; he proposes laws banning media criticism; he appoints a military general to oversee the national election; and his security forces have killed democracy organizers in the streets of Conakry. Alpha Cond\u00e9 likes to refer to himself as the ‘Mandela of West Africa’; his track record is more Mugabe than Mandela.” <\/i><\/p>\n Thompson Ayodele, Director of the Initiative for Public Policy Analysis (IPPA), said the following about the decline of economic opportunity and the expropriation of property in Guinea:<\/p>\n “Guinea could be one of the richest countries in Africa; instead, it is one of the poorest under President Alpha Cond\u00e9. Foreign investment has ground to a halt in the face of institutional corruption, erosion of the rule of law, and government theft of property, from Simandou to Bel Air to Getma.\u00a0As a result, the people of Guinea are suffering where 40 per cent of people survive on less than $1.30 a day and the UN Human Development Index (HDI) ranks Guinea 179th out of 187 countries.”<\/i><\/p>\n The situation in Guinea under President Alpha Cond\u00e9 is perilous:<\/p>\n The ShadesOfConde<\/a> campaign website will follow closely the actions of President Alpha Cond\u00e9 and his cronies during the build-up to the Presidential election, to shine the spotlight on any further erosion of human rights, democratic freedoms, and media freedoms, that Alpha Cond\u00e9 perpetrates.<\/p>\n [1] U.N. Human Development Index: http:\/\/hdr.undp.org\/en\/content\/table-1-human-development-index-and-its-components<\/a> Location: No. 44 Kinshasa Avenue, East Legon. – ShadesOfConde.org highlights the erosion of democracy and failed economic policies under President Alpha Conde ACCRA, Ghana and LAGOS, Nigeria, June 15, 2015 \/ PRNewswire — Today, the leading African organisations IMANI Center (Ghana) and Initiative for Public Policy Analysis (Nigeria) launched a public campaign calling attention to the alarming erosion of democracy and economic opportunity for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
\n[2] http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/amnesty-censures-guinea-over-move-curb-freedoms-195340680.html<\/a>
\n[3] https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/articles\/news\/2015\/04\/guinea-must-investigate-the-shooting-of-protesters\/<\/a>
\n[4] http:\/\/www.crisisgroup.org\/en\/regions\/africa\/west-africa\/guinea\/b106-guinea-s-other-emergency-organising-elections.aspx<\/a>
\n[5] http:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/afrique\/article\/2015\/06\/09\/l-union-africaine-doit-s-emparer-de-la-question-guineenne_4650500_3212.html<\/a>
\n[6] http:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/afrique\/article\/2015\/04\/30\/guinee-redoubler-d-effort-pour-eviter-le-chaos_4625765_3212.html<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nEmail: info@imanighana.org\/info@imanighana.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"