While Ivory Coast is inching towards civil war and president-elect Alessane Ouattare claims that the African Union has confirmed he won the disputed presidential elections in November last year, outgoing President Laurent Gbagbo still refuses to leave.
What's more: in order to tighten his grip on what he sees as his country, he has nationalised the banks and the cocoa industry.
Our cartoonist this week, Damien Glez, thinks that it won't stop there...
Who is Damien Glez?
The Franco-Burkinabese Damien Glez was born in 1967.
In 1991, the state of emergency ends in Burkina Faso. With the "springtime" for the country's press, Glez began his career as a cartoonist for the satirical weekly “Le Journal du Jeudi”, where he is now the delegated director of publication.
In 2001, in association with other cartoonists, he created the monthly Pan-African satirical "Le Marabout”. He also draws for publications on three continents. Cartoonist-columnist, writer and lecturer at the University of Ouagadougou, he is also the author of the comic strip "Divine comedy".
Glez's cartoons are regularly published in Le Journal du Jeudi (Burkina Faso), Vita Non Profit Magazine (Italy), Afronline (Italy), Chorus (France), World Policy Journal (US), Continental (France-Africa), La Mèche (France), Courrier international (France-Africa), Jeune Afrique (France-Africa)…
Damien Glez is a member of the Foundation «Cartooning for peace»
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