The Vatican reportedly said Pope Francis would be visiting Kenya, Uganda and the Central African Republic.

It was gathered that he will visit Kenya from November 25^th to 27^th, spend the next two days in Uganda, and travel on to the Central African Republic, where the trip would wind up on November 30^th.

In Uganda, Pope Francis would commemorate the canonisation by Pope Paul VI in 1964 of the first African saints - 22 young people killed in 1878 on the orders of the local ruler because they refused to renounce Christianity.