Bush brings aid, Shaq's shoes to  Tanzania
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President Bush gave Tanzania's president, who played basketball as a youth, a pair of Shaquille O'Neal's shoes today, along with millions of dollars to help combat disease and poverty in the east African country.
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President Bush called today for a "full return to democracy" in Kenya and vowed to continue confronting "genocide" in Sudan and "tyranny" in Zimbabwe, as he urged Congress to fund greater aid to Africa on the eve of his trip to the continent.
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George Bush announced today that the US plans to spend $30bn (Â£15bn) over five years in Africa and elsewhere to combat HIV/Aids.
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Former President Bill Clinton launched a program on Sunday to make subsidized malaria drugs available in Tanzania in a test scheme that could serve as a blueprint for Africa as a whole.
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JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 19 -- Five years after President Bush vowed to "turn the tide against AIDS" in Africa, he is traveling across a continent where the government's $15 billion investment has extended the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and eased the sense of certain doom once experienced by...
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DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, Feb. 18 -- President Bush hailed the newly independent Kosovo and officially recognized it as a state and a "close friend" on Monday, expressing strong support for the new Balkans nation even as he rebuffed protests by Serbia and Russia.
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US President George W. Bush said that there was &quot;a lot of work to be done&quot; before an international force can go to Sudan's troubled Darfur region to help beleaguered African Union (AU) troops.
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President Bush on Monday told the Pentagon to make two U.S. transport planes available to aid African peacekeeping forces seeking to end a humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region of western Sudan.
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US President George W. Bush on Friday ordered to provide 20 million dollars in assistance for Sudan. Bush said that the aid to Sudan &quot;is in the national interest of the
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DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, Feb. 17 -- President Bush made a long-distance appeal to Congress on Sunday to reauthorize and increase funding for his program to fight AIDS in Africa without tampering with controversial elements such as its emphasis on abstinence.
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President Bush handed out hugs and bed nets in Tanzania's rural north on Monday, saying the United States is part of an international effort to provide enough netting to protect every child under five in the east African nation.
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President Bush told Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on Thursday that the United States was committed to helping relieve debt and fight malaria, and soon will send Peace Corps teams back into the African nation.
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CRAWFORD, Texas  - President Bush will send a  delegation headed by Secretary of State Colin Powell and the  president's brother, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, to the  tsunami-affected region on Sunday to assess the need for  assistance, the White House said.
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The United States yesterday pledged more help for the tsunami-ravaged regions of South Asia and East Africa, and President Bush issued his first public statement
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U.S. first lady Laura Bush began a four-nation tour of Africa in Senegal's capital Dakar on Tuesday, pledging Washington's support in improving education and combating AIDS on the world's poorest continent.
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President George W. Bush on Saturday launched a five-country Africa swing, highlighting US-backed victories against disease and poverty and calling for action to help "trouble spots" Darfur and Kenya.
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President Bush opened a coast-to-coast journey through Africa on Saturday by highlighting how U.S. aid can help a small western African nation like Benin develop and save lives.