Algeria

Angola

Over time, erosion caused by wind and rain created the kind of lunar-martian landscape that we find today

Benin

Porto-Novo is a port city and the capital of Benin, in West Africa. It’s known for colonial buildings like the Brazilian-style Great Mosque, formerly a church. 

Botswana

Botswana has the largest elephant population on the continent due to a number of reasons including tight protection and civil unrest in neighbouring countries. The relative difficulty in accessing the wildlife areas coupled with the military threat to poachers has allowed the elephant population in Botswana to grow.

Botswana is well known for having some of the best wilderness and wildlife areas on the African continent. 38% of its total land area are devoted to national parks, reserves and wildlife management areas.


The Okavango Delta is a vast inland river delta in northern Botswana. It's known for its sprawling grassy plains, which flood seasonally, becoming a lush animal habitat. 

Burkina Faso

The Grand Mosque of Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso.


Burundi

Burundi faces significant food security and nutrition challenges: extreme poverty, gender inequality, frequent natural disasters, political instability, and poor access to clean water, health care and education. 

Cabo Verde

Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an archipelago and island country in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about 4,033 square kilometres.

Rui Tourag Hotel on the island of Boa Vista, part of the Cape Verde islands.

Cameroon

Inspiring views in the district of Bansoa

Central African Republic

The Central African Republic (CAR), a landlocked country in Central Africa, has one of the highest rates of hunger in the world. In fact, it ranks second-to-last on the 2019 Human Development Index.

Chad

Comoros

The Comoros is a volcanic archipelago off Africa’s east coast, in the warm Indian Ocean waters of the Mozambique Channel. 

Côte d'Ivoire

Adjamé is one of the 10 urban communes of Abidjan, Ivory Coast. It forms part of the metropolitan area and autonomous district of Abidjan.

Djibouti

Lake Abbe is known for its limestone chimneys, which reach heights of 50 m (160 ft) and from which steam spews forth. These carbonate chimneys are formed by the mixing of lake water and a deeper geothermal fluid. Flamingos can also be found on the waters.

Egypt

The Pyramids of Giza are the largest and most recognizable pyramid structures in the world. They were built to honor certain Pharaohs of the fourth ruling dynasty of Egypt during a period known as the Old Kingdom. 

The Mosque of Rifai and Sultan Hassan is truly an architectural miracle

The Sphinx of Giza is a limestone statue of a reclining sphinx, a mythical creature with the head of a man, and the body of a lion.

Equatorial Guinea

Equatorial Guinea, a small country on Africa’s west coast that discovered oil in 1995 and is now cited as a textbook example of the resource curse, also known as the paradox of abundance.

Eritrea

Massawa is a port city in Eritrea, on Africa's Red Sea coast. In the old town, on Massawa Island, a mix of Italian, Egyptian and Ottoman architecture reflects the city's colorful history.

Eswatini

Ethiopia

The Amhara Region is a regional state in northern Ethiopia and the homeland of the Amhara people.

Salt harvesting in the Danikil Depression

Gabon

Libreville, the capital of Gabon, has a seafront boulevard with parks and sculptures.

Gambia

Africa is home to the red colobus monkey, a remarkably diverse group of primates. They are the most threatened group of non-ape primates in Africa and face a variety of dangers. The primates’ beautiful fur and lack of fear towards humans makes them the unfortunate target of hunters.

Ghana

Mole National Park protects an area of savannah and forest in northern Ghana. It’s home to elephants, leopards and rare birds such as the white-backed vulture. 

Guinea

Farms outside Kindia the fourth largest city in Guinea.

Guinea-Bissau

Rare salt water Hippopotamuses in Orango Island

Kenya

Amboseli National Park is in southern Kenya. It’s known for its large elephant herds and views of immense Mount Kilimanjaro.

The Maasai are a Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting northern, central and southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. 

Family being lead across one of the trails in late afternoon, 

Lesotho

Hiking towards Jonathan's Gate and Bushman's Nek Pass in the Southern Drakensberg.

Liberia

Libya

The theater at Sabratha (constructed in AD 175–200), was started by Emperor Marcus Aure- lius, continued by his son Commodus and completed with a lavish proscaenium by Emperor Septimius Severus.

Madagascar

Beautiful alley of baobab trees at sunrise.

Waking up to paradise on this tropical island

Kids in Antananarivo playing with a lizard

Malawi

Malawi, a landlocked country in southeastern Africa, is defined by its topography of highlands split by the Great Rift Valley and enormous Lake Malawi.

Mali

Mauritania

Preparation of traditional mauri tea, in the village of Maden.

Mauritania is the eleventh largest country in Africa, and 90 percent of its territory is situated in the Sahara. 

Mauritius

The “waterfall” is actually an optical illusion formed by sand and silt deposits sliding down the slope and then dropping into the abyss.

Morocco

Camel rides out in the beautiful Sahara Desert near Marrakech

Chefchaouen, or Chaouen, is a city in the Rif Mountains of northwest Morocco. It’s known for the striking, blue-washed buildings of its old town.

Decorative marble and tile cleansing fountain at Mosque Hassan in Rabat, Morocco

Mozambique

Located just 15 minutes from the South African border at Kosi Bay, the town of Ponta do Ouro is the most convenient option for those wanting to visit both countries.

Ibo is one of the Quirimbas Islands in the Indian Ocean off northern Mozambique.

Namibia

A herd of springboks in the Namibian bush

Squirrel-sized meerkats are mongooses famed for their upright posture. They often stand on their rear legs and gaze alertly over the southern African plains where they live. Mothers can even nurse their young while standing.

Etosha National Park is unique in Africa. The park’s main characteristic is a salt pan so large it can be seen from space. 

Niger

Mercy Corps provided weekly training to help farmers improve their techniques so they can grow bigger, healthier vegetables.

Nigeria

Arinta Waterfalls in one of the many wonders of nature in Nigeria. It is located in a quiet and serene village in Ekiti State. 

Among the Hausa, indigo dyeing generated wealth in ancient Kano.

Republic of the Congo 

There are only around 1,000 individuals remain in the wild, making the mountain gorilla one of the planet's most endangered animals.

An estimated 125,000 Western lowland gorillas are living in a swamp in equatorial Africa, researchers reported Tuesday, double the number of the endangered primates thought to survive worldwide

Rwanda

As their name implies, mountain gorillas live in forests high in the mountains, at elevations of 8,000 to 13,000 feet.

Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha

Jamestown is the capital of the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, located on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is also the historic main settlement of the island and is on its north-western coast.

Sao Tome and Principe

Senegal

Seychelles

Seychelles is home to numerous beaches, coral reefs and nature reserves, as well as rare animals such as giant Aldabra tortoises. 

Today, all tortoises found in the Seychelles are Aldabra Giant Tortoises which is one of the largest species in the world.

Sierra Leone

The turquoise clear beaches of Tokeh village

Somalia

South Africa

The beautiful Table Mountain in Cape Town

V&A Waterfront is a busy retail, dining and entertainment district with gift and design stores, diverse museums, and a restaurant scene which covers burger joints to posh bistros

Stony Point Nature Reserve is home to one of the largest successful breeding colonies of African Penguin in the world. Located in the quaint coastal town of Betty's Bay in the Overberg, the Stony Point Nature Reserve is home to a unique colony of African Penguins.

South Sudan

Tens of thousands of people from across the region prepare to receive their first distribution in many months in Thonyor, South Sudan. Many residents from Leer fled to Thonyor to seek safety.

Sudan

Tanzania

Zanzibar is an insular autonomous region of Tanzania. It is composed of many small islands and two large ones: Unguja (the main island, referred to informally as Zanzibar) and Pemba Island.

Welcome ceremony of Masai's in Serengeti, Tanzania

Mount Kilimanjaro is a dormant volcano in Tanzania. It has three volcanic cones: Kibo, Mawenzi, and Shira. It is the highest mountain in Africa and the highest single free-standing mountain in the world: 5,895 metres above sea level and about 4,900 metres above its plateau base.

Togo

These girls and their little brother work hard every morning to prepare for the day. They clean, sweep, cook and always, always smile and sing.

Tunisia

Kairouan is a city in northern Tunisia’s inland desert. It became a powerful trading hub and center of Islamic scholarship in the 9th century

Uganda

Gorilla sitting in the rainforest of Uganda



Uganda is a landlocked country in East Africa whose diverse landscape encompasses the snow-capped Rwenzori Mountains and immense Lake Victoria. 

Zambia

Wildlife in South Luangwa National Park, Zambia



Rainclouds, fire over Zambian landscape



Zimbabwe

One of Africa's top national parks, Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe's northwest should be on any safari lover's bucket list.

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