Trekking 10,000km across Africa for a football match

A Zimbabwean nurse travelled from Cape Town to Cairo by road enduring visa delays, internet blackouts and revolutionary protests all for the love of football.
Alvin "Aluvah" Zhakata had intended to make it to Egypt for the opening match of the Africa Cup of Nations on 21 June, when Zimbabwe's Warriors took on the hosts.
But he missed the match because his epic journey took much longer than expected.
Yet thanks to those following his adventures on Twitter, he has now become a celebrity - and the African football boss has presented him with a ticket to this Friday's final between Algeria and Senegal.

'Africa is not friendly to Africans'
When the 32-year-old arrived in the Egyptian capital last week, completing his 44-day 10,000km (6,200-mile) trip, he said it was well worth it despite some nerve-wracking experiences.
And he says he has learnt a lot about himself and Africa.
"I used to think I was not patient - but my patience was stretched to the maximum - I've got a bigger patience threshold than I thought," he told the BBC.
His other more sobering discovery was that "Africa is not friendly to Africans" - in terms of visas and borders.
And some of the visa fees for African countries, they are actually more expensive than visa fees when you want to go to Europe - and the waiting period takes too long.
"I believe we need a borderless Africa."
The journey began on 27 May on a route passing through South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt.
'We wanted to make history'
He started off with his friend Botha Msila, a South African football fan, who lives near Cape Town, and they hitched lifts or caught buses.
"We wanted to make history as the first people to make it from Cape to Cairo by road for a sports tournament," Zhakata said.
The locum nurse, who lives in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, had kept in touch with Msila since meeting him at the Cosafa Cup final in South Africa's Sun City two years ago.
He had told him about how he had made a solo road trip in 2016 from Harare to Kigali to support the Warriors at the African Nations Championship in Rwanda.
They then cooked up their plan and raised funds for the journey from well-wishers following the hashtag #CapeToCairo to see their progress across the continent.
But the two friends were separated when Msila turned back at the Kenya-Ethiopian border as he could not get a visa.
Ethiopia only allows online visa applications for travellers by road.
While they had the fee in cash, they needed help to get the funds electronically into their account. But then their application was further delayed by five days.
"Unfortunately their system was down because there was a national internet shutdown to avoid exam cheating," explained Zhakata.
"I was so dejected that I couldn't finish my food and my beer."