Pope Leo XIV wrapped up his visit to Cameroon on Saturday with a Mass and looked ahead to Angola for the third leg of his four-nation African odyssey. Leo celebrated Mass at the Yaounde Airport for thousands of people,

Some spent the night on the ground, battling mosquitoes, to stake out their spot for the pontiff's Mass in the economic capital of Cameroon.

Pope Leo XIV arrived in Cameroon on Wednesday where he spoke on wielding authority legitimately to President Paul Biya, who consolidated his four-decade grip on power with a contested election last year that gave him an eighth term in office.

Pope Leo XIV continued his apostolic journey in Africa on April 18, saying Holy Mass in Cameroon before departing for Angola on the next leg of his visit. The Holy Father will spend several days in Angola before finishing his trip in Equatorial Guinea. This is his first papal trip to the continent.

Pope Leo XIV has led a peace meeting in Cameroon’s northwestern city of Bamenda, which is part of a region battered by a separatist violence.

Tens of thousands of people streamed towards a stadium in Cameroon's economic capital Douala Friday for a huge, open-air mass by Pope Leo XIV, the biggest event of a visit

Pope Leo XIV spent his second day in Cameroon in Bamenda, the center of separatist fighting, calling for peace and criticizing the "masters of war."

The pontiff was unusually forthright in his address at the presidential palace.