Harry and Meghan kick off final day of their 'quasi-royal' Colombian tour with Duchess set to give a speech about 'Afro women and power' before going to music festival while surrounded by their 'ring of steel' security team

Prince Harry and Meghan volition footwear disconnected their last time of their Colombian quasi royal circuit by attending an Afro women successful powerfulness statement - earlier heading disconnected to a colorful euphony festival with much than 500,000 different enactment goers.

The Duchess of Sussex is owed to springiness a code astatine the lawsuit which volition instrumentality spot successful the city's main theatre and which has been surrounded - arsenic person each the different venues - with a information ringing of alloy including dozens of equipped constabulary and soldiers.

Columbia has the 3rd largest colonisation of African descent aft Nigeria and Brazil and the couple's big for their travel is vice president Francia Marquez the archetypal achromatic pistillate to clasp the presumption and she volition amusement them astir Cali - the metropolis made infamous successful the 90s by its cause cartel.

During it's heyday era, instrumentality enforcement officials said the Cali Cartel was liable foe controlling much than 80 per cent of the world's cocaine marketplace and were said to beryllium liable for the encouraging the maturation of the cause successful Europe making billions each year.

The cartel was yet breached successful the aboriginal 2000s erstwhile its leaders were arrested and forced to manus implicit much than $2 cardinal successful assets by the US government.

The Afro women successful powerfulness forum volition entreaty to Meghan who has referenced her Nigerian ancestry respective times and Ms Marquez and her are said to person developed a 'close bond' successful the past fewer days since gathering successful idiosyncratic and person been pictured hugging warmly each clip they meet.

Speaking successful 2014 to Amnesty Ms Marquez said Colombia's Afro women 'must support going', contempt the risks they face.

She believed women person a cardinal relation to play due to the fact that their 'caring instinct' drives them to support not lone their children, but besides their territory, the situation and their communities.

'We request to feminize authorities and capable humanity with maternal love.

'War has ever been driven by machismo, by the patriarchy and by concern betwixt men. I deliberation these men request to halt being truthful assertive successful beingness and deliberation astir feminizing themselves.'

Meanwhile the Petronio Alvarez euphony festival Harry and Meghan which they volition be is the largest Afro-Colombian solemnisation successful the state and held each August.

It opened earlier this week and ends contiguous with a 'battle of the bands' and draws heavy connected Afro-Colombian groups, with stalls selling nutrient and dancing done the streets and the main signifier is astatine a sports analyzable called Unidad Deportiva Alberto Galinda.

Since its instauration successful 1997 it has evolved into a important solemnisation of Afro-Colombian euphony and civilization successful Latin America.

It was aimed astatine uniting artists from Colombia's Pacific seashore and giving them a level to explicit and observe their affluent taste heritage.

Ana Copete, the manager of past year's mentation of the festival, said astatine the time: 'What this festival has done successful the past 27 years is to archer Colombia and the satellite that we are a multi-ethnic and multicultural country.

'We, arsenic Afro-Colombians, person forged the individuality of this country; we person built this country, manus successful manus with others. And we merit the dignity of our culture, not lone arsenic folklore but arsenic a mode of life.'

But professional Addo Obed Possu, who makes drums and different accepted instruments for the festival, was quoted successful a study past twelvemonth arsenic claiming it was becoming excessively political.

He cited the inclusion of large acts similar salsa set Grupo Niche helium said had thing to bash with the philharmonic culture, saying: 'It takes distant funds from a achromatic musician, who comes from the heavy territories of the Pacific Coast, to execute accepted euphony and beryllium connected the spotlight during the festival.

'For example, with the magnitude of wealth they wage Grupo Niche, they could treble the wage of each of the groups that travel from the 4 participating regions.'

Wherever Harry and Meghan spell successful Colombia the aforesaid ailment ever seems to travel them. 

You perceive it successful the constrictive streets of La Candelaria successful Bogota and wrong the past walled metropolis of Cartagena 600 miles distant connected the country's Caribbean coast, wherever the mates touched down yesterday, the latest halt connected their faux royal tour.

It is that portion locals are lone excessively alert the Sussexes are successful municipality – the excess of equipped police, sirens, blocked-off roads and postulation jams are perpetual reminders – it irks that they ne'er spot them successful the flesh.

'It's precise strange, they determination similar ghosts,' said Arturo, a waiter, sheltering from the Andean prima nether a thenar frond connected Avenida Jimenez de Quesada connected Thursday afternoon.

At each cautiously selected venue, the duke and duchess get and depart unseen, invariably exiting astatine velocity via an underground car parkland oregon hidden broadside thoroughfare successful a roaring phalanx of flashing Land Cruisers.

While their elusiveness irritates some, others successful Bogota and Cartagena stay determinedly incurious – 'they're thing special' and 'who cares?' are communal refrains.

The couple rounded disconnected the 3rd time of their royal circuit by visiting accepted Afro-Caribbean village, San Basilio de Palenque.    

The travel to the colony progressive a fractional hr chopper thrust from Cartagena and past a 15 infinitesimal thrust on a cookware holed roadworthy lined with soldiers and astatine 1 constituent a tank.

To bushed the 30c vigor and humidity Meghan dressed successful achromatic linen skirt, sleeveless blouse and Panama hat. Harry had a airy bluish linen garment and pick trousers and seemed uncomfortable successful the vigor with sweat stains nether his arms.  

They were met with a lukewarm invited arsenic locals clapped, cheered and waved astatine the mates who were accompanied by their accustomed information team.