Pope Leo XIV will hold an open-air mass in Equatorial Guinea on Thursday to end a landmark 11-day trip across Africa that has been the US pontiff's first big international trip.
The tour took Leo to four countries, traveling 18,000 kilometres (11,000 miles) and involved eight masses.
He repeatedly called for social justice, peace and respect for human dignity, while denouncing inequality, corruption and the unjust exploitation of natural resources by "tyrants".
On Wednesday, the pope went to Equatorial Guinea's notorious Bata prison where he was greeted by hundreds of shaven-headed inmates and made comments criticising living conditions.
On Thursday, the head of the Catholic Church will celebrate a mass at 10:00 am (0900 GMT) at a stadium in Malabo, the former capital of the former Spanish colony of two million inhabitants.
The pope arrived in Equatorial Guinea on Tuesday after stops in Algeria, Cameroon and Angola.
Leo throughout the trip has taken strong stands, as when he denounced those who "in the name of profit, continue to lay their hands on the African continent to exploit and plunder it."
