Faces of Africa

At 5,895 meters, Kilimanjaro is the highest free-standing mountain in the world, and one of the several natural wonders of the world. While thousands come from all over the world and have a thousand different reasons to climb Kilimanjaro, for Ugandan Jaffar Amin and Tanzanian Madaraka Nyerere, this is more than a potentially deadly challenge to reach the top. Their climb is a journey of peace, of discovery, of reconciliation.

Natural beauty, rich history, edge culture, two oceans, this could only be Cape Town, South Africa, the mother city as it's known, and we're here to find its most famous adopted son, which shouldn't be hard as his name or image can be found almost everywhere. It’s on the road signs, in the art. It's even on the tips of tourists tongues. Nelson Mandela is now very much a part of the local tourist circuit.

Natural beauty, rich history, edge culture, two oceans, this could only be Cape Town, South Africa, the mother city as it's known, and we're here to find its most famous adopted son, which shouldn't be hard as his name or image can be found almost everywhere. It’s on the road signs, in the art. It's even on the tips of tourists tongues. Nelson Mandela is now very much a part of the local tourist circuit.

The volcanic island of Reunion, rising over 300m from the ocean, is a hiker's paradise. Patrice Zulme is a Hiking Guide who accompanies clients to remote parts of the island. His destinations include the Mafate volcanic circle, named after a leader of the so-called Marrons, or escaped slaves. Reunion is increasingly threatened by overdevelopment, increased tourism and overpopulation.

It's four o'clock in the morning, deep in the Kenyan bush. Men and women with a mission are preparing for another grueling day. This is not the army or the police, but a team of paramilitary officers who dedicated their careers to a global cause.

It is dawn here in Nairobi today and hundreds of thousands of the city's inhabitants are on the move. This is Kenya's capital, the hub of east and central Africa. A magnet since its early days for those seeking opportunities and a better life, but it is also a city of contrast where the haves and have-nots rush past each other. In Loresho, a leafy suburb of Nairobi, aviator, rally driver and entrepreneur Mohammed Aslam is beginning his day. His story is like that of Nairobi's, and like those who over the years have come, made their home here and strived to achieve success in this competitive melting port.

Water is life. Seventy percent of the earth surface is covered with water. Life on earth is depended on healthy oceans. And our entire marine eco-system is under severer stress.

Water is life. Seventy percent of the earth surface is covered with water. Life on earth is depended on healthy oceans. And our entire marine eco-system is under severer stress.

Coronation Day in Shashemene, Ethiopia, is the day the Rastafarians celebrate the crowning of Haile Selassie as emperor of Ethiopia in 1930. Their name Rastafarians or Rastafari comes from Haile Selassie's name before his coronation - Ras Tafari.

An ordinary day in Abeokuta in Western Nigeria, Chief Obasanjo is attending visitors to his presidential library complex. It is this buzzy nation that Chief Obasanjo has been ruling as a president until 2007. Retirement in his home area Abeokuta seems not to be the option. Among other things, he has working on his presidential library building that has a permanent exhibition of his life history and his work as the president of Nigeria.