Bush Arrives in Gaborone for Talks with Botswana President

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Bush Arrives in Gaborone for Talks with Botswana President

US President George W. Bush arrived in Gaborone on Thursday, beginning a six-hour visit to Botswana, the third leg of his five-nation tour of Africa.

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US President George W. Bush arrived in Gaborone on Thursday, beginning a six-hour visit to Botswana, the third leg of his five-nation tour of Africa.

Bush is scheduled to visit a game park and hold talks with President Festus Mogae in Botswana.

He is expected to focus on his country's plans to expand trade and AIDS assistance to the African nation.

Bush arrived in South Africa late Tuesday, where he met with South African President Thabo Mbeki.

The US president was in Senegal Tuesday, where he visited GoreeIsland, where hundreds of thousands of Africans were held and often punished before being sold into slavery in America.

He met in Dakar with Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade and the heads of seven other west African nations, including Ghanaian President John Kufuor, also head of the 15-member Economic Community of West African States.

The other west African leaders Bush met with are Mathieu Kerekou of Benin, Pedro Verona Rodriques Pires of Cape Verde, Yahya Jammeh of the Gambia, Amadou Toumani Toure of Mali, Mamadou Tandja of Niger and Ahmed Tejan Kabbah of Sierra Leone.

Bush is scheduled to go to Uganda on Friday, and in the east African country that has made remarkable progress in bringing downthe HIV/AIDS infection rate, he will focus on the fight against AIDS.

In Nigeria, the last leg of his Africa tour, Bush is likely to focus on the west African country's status as a regional power andmajor supplier of oil to the United States.

Bush is accompanied by Secretary of State Colin Powell and Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Walter Kansteiner. Other senior officials in the Bush entourage include National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card.

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