In pictures: Melania Trump's whistle-stop Africa tour

US First Lady Melania Trump is visiting Ghana, Malawi, Kenya and Egypt to promote children's welfare on what is her first major foreign trip alone. President Donald Trump has not visited Africa since taking office in January 2017. In February, a row broke out after he allegedly used "shithole" to describe some African nations. Mrs Trump's week-long trip to the continent is seen as an attempt to heal some of the divisions.

Her tour began in Accra on Tuesday where she later took tea with Ghana's first lady and visited a healthcare clinic.

She visited a former slave fort the next day and is pictured here in the "Door of No Return" - the last bit of African soil slaves touched before being sent to the Americas.

Her tour of four African nations is to be completed within less than a week.

Mrs Trump met children at a primary school in Malawi's capital, Lilongwe.