Making light of a difficult situation is the daily work of embattled Burundi political cartoonists

Bujumbura Burundi – Scrolling through a folder of his work Burundian cartoonist Alif pauses at a caricature of a journalist in the crosshairs of a rifle scope – an image that seems to sum up the dangers faced by those who continue to report on Burundi’s ongoing political crisis. “A cartoon like this can say a…