A British man has become the first person to run the length of Africa.

Nicholas Bourne covered more than ten-thousand kilometres, starting out in South Africa and ending up ten months later at the Pyramids in Egypt.

He wore out more than thirty pairs of shoes, and braved everything from deserts and floods to war zones and wild animals.

Mr Bourne, who's a former international model, was hoping to raise one-and-a-half million dollars for the children and environment of Africa.

But so far he has only three-quarters of that amount in pledges.

He and his mother used their own money to finance the trek.