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Today, two leading African think tanks, IMANI Center (Ghana) and Initiative for Public Policy Analysis (Nigeria) launched a public campaign to shine light on the remainder of Africa�s dictators. This campaign begins with calling attention to the alarming erosion of democracy and economic opportunity for Guineans under President Alpha Cond�. ShadesOfConde.org highlights the erosion of democracy and failed economic policies under President Alpha Cond� As African leaders gather in South Africa for the Leaders� Day meetings at the African Union, ShadesOfConde has been launched to bring attention to the worsening situation in Guinea, ahead of the crucial Presidential election in October 2015. Franklin Cudjoe, Director of IMANI Center, Ghana, said the following about decline of democracy in Guinea: �President Alpha Cond� is using every measure available to him to evade scrutiny and accountability � 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� likes to refer to himself as the �Mandela of West Africa�; his track record is more Mugabe than Mandela.� 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: �Guinea could be one of the richest countries in Africa; instead, it is one of the poorest under President Alpha Cond�. 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. As 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.� The situation in Guinea under President Alpha Cond� is perilous: � The country is ranked 179th out of 187 countries in the Human Development Index � Reporters Without Borders have condemned new law proposals cracking down on the free press � Amnesty International has condemned the shooting of pro-democracy protestors � The International Crisis Group has warned of rising ethnic tensions caused by Alpha Cond�s policies and that free and fair elections are at risk � Political leaders in the U.S. and Europe are calling for the international community to stand up to Alpha Cond�s authoritarian rule The ShadesOfConde campaign website will follow closely the actions of President Alpha Cond� 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� perpetrates.