{"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