From 1 to 2 October 2025, Cartooning for Peace (CFP) will participate in the 4th edition of the Africa Facts Summit organised by the independent fact-checking organisation Africa Check.
This year’s event is being held in Dakar, Senegal, and will bring together nearly 200 fact-checkers from across the African continent for two days of discussions, synergies and networking in the fight against disinformation.
On this occasion, Cartooning for Peace is presenting an exhibition 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 Odia 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.
Programme
Press cartoons are a powerful vehicle for information and awareness-raising. How does press cartoons reinforce efforts to combat disinformation on the African continent? Through the combined perspectives of press cartoonists and fact-checking journalists, this round table opens the debate and sheds new light on both the potential of press cartoons in the face of fake news and the challenges they face on the African continent.
With :
Cris Chinaka : journalist, founder and editor-in-chief of Zimfact (Zimbabwe)
Moïse Esapa :journalist, fact-checker and head of monitoring at Balobaki Check (DRC)
Ass Momar Lô : journalist, fact-checker and trainer at Africa Check’s French-speaking office
Lassane Zohoré : Press cartoonist, member of CFP, founder and editor-in-chief of Gbich!, president of the Tâche d’encre association and the Groupement des Éditeurs de Presse (Press Publishers’ Association)
Modéréeby Sophie Brondel, Head of International Development and Advocacy at Cartooning for Peace
Cartooning for Peace presents the exhibition ‘Cartooning for Africa Facts’. Designed especially for the summit, it brings together some twenty press cartoons from around the world and addresses issues related to misinformation and the importance of fact-checking: in Africa, as in the rest of the world, the scourge of misinformation in the age of digital technology, social media and artificial intelligence is disrupting our societies. Fake news undermines the fundamental right to clear and reliable information, which is necessary for democracy and social harmony. The work of journalists and fact-checkers is becoming increasingly essential in the face of this ever-changing threat.
Among the drawings in the exhibition, discover the one by Tijan, winner of the Cartooning for Peace Special Prize for Press Cartooning, ‘Elections, fake news and consequences’, awarded in May 2025 at the Cocobulles Cartoon and Comic Strip Festival in Abidjan.
