President Bush walks with Benin's President Boni Yayi during an arrival ceremony at Cadjehoun International Airport in Cotonou, Benin, Saturday, Feb. 16, 2008. Benin was the first stop on Mr. Bush's visit to Africa He also visits Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana, and Liberia.
Tanzania
Tanzanian dancers wear "kanga", traditional African cloths, bearing the image of President Bush as as they perform for President Bush, not pictured, at a social dinner held at the State House in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Sunday, Feb. 17, 2008.
Three-year-old Faith Mang'ehe sits on the lap of her mother, Tatu Msangi, an HIV-positive registered nurse, during a meeting with President George W. Bush, left, at Amana District Hospital in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Sunday, Feb. 17, 2008. When Tatu Msangi became pregnant, she also discovered she was HIV-positive and enrolled in a prevention of mother to child transmission program and her daughter is currently HIV-free.
President George W. Bush sits with patients during a malaria ante-natal preventative treatment session in the pediatric outpatient clinic during a tour of Meru District Hospital in Arusha, Tanzania, Monday, Feb. 18, 2008.
President George W. Bush gets under an insecticide mosquito net, used to combat malaria, as he visits A to Z textile mills in Arusha, Tanzania, Monday, Feb. 18, 2008.
President Bush, center, is surrounded by Tanzanians in traditional warrior dress as he tours the Maasai Girls School in Arusha, Tanzania, Monday, Feb. 18, 2008.
President Bush greets students as he tours the Maasai Girls School in Arusha, Tanzania, Monday, Feb. 18, 2008.
President Bush kisses a tall Maasai woman after receiving a gift from her during a visit to the Maasai Girls School in Arusha, Tanzania, Monday, Feb. 18, 2008.
President Bush holds a copy of "The Cat in the Hat" during a classroom visit at the Maasai Girls School in Arusha, Tanzania, Monday, Feb. 18, 2008.
President Bush sits with Maasai students during a visit to the Maasai Girls School in Arusha, Tanzania, Monday, Feb. 18, 2008.
Tanzania's President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, bottom left, and his wife Salma, bottom right, who is wearing "kanga" (traditional African cloth) bearing the image of President George W. Bush, bid farewell to President Bush and First Lady Laura Bush, seen boarding Air Force One, at Julius Nyerere International Airport in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008.
Rwanda
President George W. Bush, rear center and Rwanda's President Paul Kagame, right, watch traditional dancers at an arrival ceremony in Kigali, Rwanda, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008.
President George W. Bush, second right, and Rwanda's President Paul Kagame speak at a joint news conference at the Presidency in Kigali, Rwanda, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008.
President George W. Bush, center, and first lady Laura Bush look on as Marine honor guards lay a wreath at the Kigali Memorial Center which documents the 1994 genocide in Kigali, Rwanda, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008.
President Bush and first lady Laura Bush tour the Kigali Memorial Center which documents the 1994 genocide in Kigali, Rwanda, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008.
President Bush and first lady Laura Bush watch students from the "Anti-AIDS Club" at the Lycee De Kigali, which provides AIDS awareness education programs, perform a play promoting abstinence, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008, in Kigali, Rwanda.
Ghana
President George W. Bush, left with Ghana's President John Kufuor during an arrival ceremony in Accra, Ghana Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2008. President Bush is pushing trade and aid in Ghana this tropical land of gold and diamonds, the latest stop on what he has dubbed his "mission of mercy" to Africa.
Students from the Kotoka Basic School sing for President Bush during a visit to the USAID West Africa Trade Hub, which produces textiles, food products, and crafts for export, Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2008, at the International Trade Fair Center in Accra, Ghana.
President George W. Bush, right, at an arrival ceremony at Spriggs Payne Airport with Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, left, in Monrovia, Liberia, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008.
Liberians line the street and wave as U.S. President George W. Bush's motorcade drives past them in Monrovia, Liberia, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008.