From 1 to 2 October 2025 in Dakar (Senegal), Cartooning for Peace will participate in the Africa Facts Summit, organised by Africa Check. This event brings together nearly 200 fact-checkers from across the continent for two days of discussions, synergies and networking in the fight against disinformation.
On this occasion, Cartooning for Peace is presenting an exhibition of around twenty press cartoons from around the world on the theme of disinformation, in partnership with Africa Check, Zimfact and Balobaki. It is part of the ‘Cartooning for Africa Facts’ project, implemented with the support of CFI.
It is also an opportunity to showcase the Illustrated Fact-Checking Manual, produced as part of this project, to all the fact-checkers attending the summit.
Invited by Cartooning for Peace, Lassane Zohoré, an Ivorian cartoonist and member of the CFP network, co-founder and editor-in-chief of the newspaper Gbich!, as well as Senegalese cartoonists Odiah and Tijan, are actively participating in the Summit by sketching the discussions and key issues as they arise. Their drawings thus help to raise participants’ awareness of the evocative power of press cartoons and to forge links between fact-checking and press cartoons.
On this occasion, Tijan, winner of the Cartooning for Peace Special Prize for Drawing on the theme “Fake News, Elections and Consequences,” awarded in May in Abidjan as part of the Cocobulles Comic Strip and Cartoon Festival, received his trophy from Lassane Zohoré, in his capacity as President of the Tâche d’encre association, organiser of Cocobulles.
