Safaa Odah and Jimmy “Spire” Sseetongo are this year’s winners of the Prix international de dessin de presse in Geneva. The Palestinian is being honoured for her humanitarian work in the Gaza Strip, the Ugandan for his cartoons critical of the government. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox “Our 2026 Prize is a call for the freedom of cartoonists and for Safaa to finally be freed from her prison of rubble,” explained Patrick Chappatte, founder and president of the Freedom Cartoonists Foundation. + Patrick Chappatte: ‘The path for satire has been getting narrower’ Safaa Odah was granted asylum by France before the reception programme for scientists and artists was suspended. Although the programme was resumed, she is still stuck. Since then, she has continued to draw, sometimes on the canvas of her tent in the destroyed Palestinian territory. Before the war in October 2023, she campaigned for the emancipation of women and young people with drawings, comics …