The war in Syria has left at least 388,652 dead, according to a report published Sunday, March 14 by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH).
Half of the pre-war population - 22 million - were forced to flee, the largest displacement caused by conflict since World War II.
Ten years after the first protests against power, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, 55, is at the head of a country in ruins, exercising limited sovereignty over territory dismembered by foreign powers.
"The prospects for reconstruction are very weak and the end of the tunnel is still a long way off," Cartooning for Peace recalls in its weekly editorial.
An "end of the tunnel" that Ali Dilem chose to illustrate in his own way.
The cartoonist started his career with the daily Le Jeune Indépendant in 1990 then joined Le Matin in 1991 and La Liberté in 1996. He is known for his freedom of tone towards the regime of Abdelaziz Bouteflika, drawings which have earned him no less about sixty trials.
Cartooning for Peace is an international network of cartoonists committed to promoting, through the universality of press cartoons, freedom of expression, human rights and mutual respect between populations of different cultures or beliefs.
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