Bush In Africa

President Bush is welcomed to the Presidential Palace in Dakar, Senegal, by Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade, right, as Mr. Bush begins a five-nation tour of Africa, July 8, 2003. In meetings with African leaders, he was to focus on fighting poverty and disease while promoting democracy on the continent.

President Bush and first lady Laura Bush arrive at dawn in Dakar, Senegal, at Leopold Sedar Senghor International Airport, the first stop on a five-nation tour of Africa, July 8, 2003.

U.S. first lady Laura Bush, right, next to Senegalese artist Suliman Keita, listens to Senegal's First Lady Viviane Wade, left, during a visit to the Presidential Palace in Dakar, July 8, 2003. In the center is an unidentified interpreter.

President Bush walks behind first lady Laura Bush into the "Slave House," on Goree Island, off the coast of Dakar, Senegal, July 8, 2003. Africans were held, weighed, and often punished at the slave house, built in 1776, before making the trans-Atlantic journey to the Americas.

President Bush peers through "The Door of No Return", where slaves are said to have passed through to board ships taking them to the Americas and the Carribean. He was touring the Slave House on Goree Island, Senegal, July 8, 2003.

President Bush and South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki arrive for a press conference at the Presidential Guest House in Pretoria, South Africa, July 9, 2003. Following at rear are first lady Laura Bush and South Africa's first lady Zanele Mbeki.

President Bush and first lady Laura Bush stand with South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki and his wife Zanele during the playing of the Star Spangled Banner at the Union Building in Pretoria, South Africa, July 9, 2003. Mr. Bush pledged that he will not overextend U.S. armed forces, even if he sends troops to join a peacekeeping force in Liberia.

President Bush and South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki are seen through a saluting South African presidential honor guard member during the playing of the South African national anthem at the Union Building in Pretoria, South Africa, July 9, 2003.

Anti-American protestors hold a banner reading "God Is Not American" to protest the visit to South Africa of President Bush. Mr. Bush was welcomed during a ceremony at the Union Buildings, background, in Pretoria by his South African counterpart Thabo Mbeki.

President Bush listens to the Thokoza Choir sing before dinner at the American ambassador's residence in Pretoria, South Africa, July 9, 2003.

President Bush is greeted by local youth during a welcome ceremony at the Sir Seretse Khama International Airport in Gaborone, Botswana, July 10, 2003.

First lady Laura Bush, right, prepares to apply paint to a doll as Maria Moyo, left, looks on at the Baylor Children's Clinical Center, a pediatric AIDS initiative in Gaberone, Botswana, July 10, 2003. Looking on is nurse Nancy Callies, second from right and nurse Courtney Marakala, second from left.

President Bush and his daughter Barbara pet elephants as they tour the Mokolodi Nature Reserve outside of Gaborone, Botswana, July 10, 2003.

President Bush pats an elephant's trunk on a tour of the Mokolodi Nature Reserve outside Gaborone, Botswana, July 10, 2003. Mr. Bush's daughter Barbara stands at right. The reserve is a predator-free home to elephant orphans and endangered rhinos, as well as zebra, giraffes and hippos.

President Bush, first lady Laura Bush, their daughter Barbara Bush, and guide Ezekiel Mokgosi watch 5-year-old rhino Pearl, center, and her 9-month old calf as they tour the Mokolodi Nature Reserve outside of Gaborone, Botswana, July 10, 2003.

President Bush arrives in the East African nation of Uganda and is greeted by President of Uganda Yoweri Museveni at left at the Entebbe International Airport, July 11, 2003. Uganda has waged one of the world's most successful battles against HIV.

President Bush and first lady Laura Bush arrive in the East African nation of Uganda and are greeted by President of Uganda Yoweri Museveni at Entebbe International Airport in July 11, 2003. Uganda has waged one of the world's most successful battles against HIV.

President Bush, center, hugs members of the Ugandan Watoto Children's Choir, who are orphans of AIDS victims, after they performed for him at the AIDS Support Organization Center (TASO) in Entebbe, Uganda, July 11, 2003. President Bush wants Uganda's journey out of the dark scourge of AIDS to serve as a model for his $15 billion global initiative to contain the pandemic. At right is first lady Laura Bush.

Ugandan first lady Janet Museveni, left, looks on as first lady Laura Bush, right, reads to Ugandan school children at the Imperial Botanical Beach hotel in Entebbe, Uganda, July 11, 2003.

President Bush, center, reviews the honor guard at a welcome ceremony given by Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, Nigeria, Saturday, July 12, 2003. Nigeria was the last stop in Mr. Bush's five-nation tour of Africa, which also took him to Senegal, South Africa, Botswana, and Uganda.