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Article: Returning home, Bush faces test of Africa agenda
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- International Herald Tribune
- Article date:
- July 15, 2003
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President George W. Bush made a lot of promises to Africa last week.
Now, he has to make good on them. As he visited five African countries,
Bush pledged that the United States would play a leading role in
fighting AIDS, which is inflicting an almost unimaginable toll on
the continent. To meet that commitment, he and his top aides said
they would go all out to make sure that Congress provided all of the
money for the five-year, $15 billion program he proposed this year
to attack the disease there. Bush said he would help Africa gain
a toehold in the global economy by selling more of its goods abroad.
African leaders told him they appreciated the money that rich ...