Focus on Africa - 26/11/2015 1500GMT

On the first stop of his first official trip to Africa, Pope Francis tells a gathering of religious leaders in Kenya that dialogue between different faiths is challenging but essential. At least 16 people killed by suspected Boko Haram militants in an attack on a village in Niger. The African Union holds its first-ever conference on child marriage in the Zambian capital, Lusaka.

Photo: Former child bride Chipasha Iliamupu from Zambia. Credit: BBC