While the world has been watching the US presidential election for over a week, many elections have taken place on the African continent in the meantime.

In Guinea first, President Alpha Condé was re-elected on October 18 for a third term highly contested by the opposition, after a campaign marked by violence causing dozens of deaths.

Then in Tanzania, John Magufuli, nicknamed the "bulldozer", won a much discussed second term on October 28, after arresting 150 members and leaders of the opposition, according to the UN High Commissioner for human rights, Michelle Bachelet.

Finally in Côte d'Ivoire, whose election on October 31 was feared since, since August, more than 80 deaths have been deplored.

Alassane Ouattara was re-elected for a third term also very controversial: the opposition had engaged in a movement of "civil disobedience" to challenge the unconstitutionality of the candidacy of the outgoing president and boycott the election.

Fearing the escalation of violence, Ouattara and his rival Henri Bédié ended up meeting on November 11 to try to avoid the escalation of violence and the great divide from which the country already suffered in 2010 (more than 3,000 dead) .

For Cartooning for Peace, Glez, cartoonist from Burkina Faso, represents these African heads of state concerned by the multiplication of their mandates.

They look at a mirror in which Nelson Mandela appears, who has only served one mandate at the head of South Africa.

Glez is a columnist, lyricist, teacher, TV series writer, and comic strip writer Divine comedy.

For 25 years, he was deputy editor of the satirical weekly Journal du Jeudi.

His drawings are published regularly in Rolling Stone, Jeune Afrique, Habari RDC, Benbere, Afrique Magazine, The Africa Report, World Policy Journal.

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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