It has approved $5.5 billion in compacts with 16 countries, nine in Africa. Programs such as these have kept America relatively popular in Africa, unlike throughout the rest of the world. Yet even ...

In anticipation of the G8 meetings, Bush sent Michael J. Gerson and Kristen Silverberg, two of his top domestic policy advisers, to Africa for 10 days to review his AIDS initiative and other ...

Bush in Africa NPR's Don Gonyea talks with host Bob Edwards about President Bush's stop in Senegal. Bush also visits Goree Island. The island was a point of departure for many Africans enslaved ...

Bush's Africa Trip NPR's Tavis Smiley talks with Bill Fletcher, president of TransAfrica Forum, and Jean Kirkpatrick, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, ...

ACCRA, Ghana, Feb. 20 -- President Bush on Wednesday tried to calm deep fears about expanding U.S. strategic ambitions in Africa, dismissing speculation that he wants to build military bases on ...