Bush Visits South Africa on 5-Day Trip

World | July 9, 2003, Wednesday // 00:00
Bush Visits South Africa on 5-Day Trip President Bush greets residents on Senegalese Goree Island. Bush gave a speech on slavery and race in a visit to an Atlantic seaport where slaves once were packed onto ships and sent to America. He is on a five-nation trip to Africa. Photo by AP

After touring a former slave house and paying homage to the humans who were sold there, President Bush is visiting the place where the apartheid system of white-minority rule further oppressed black Africans through the 20th century. With a decision pending on whether he will send U.S. troops to help enforce peace in Liberia, Bush planned meetings Wednesday with South African President Thabo Mbeki in Pretoria. The two men were expected to discuss AIDS, the campaign against terror, trade, and the political and economic crisis unfolding in neighboring Zimbabwe. But rising anti-American sentiment fed by unhappiness over Bush's decision to wage war in Iraq was casting a shadow over his visit to South Africa on the second day of a five-day, five-nation tour of sub-Saharan Africa. Dozens of South Africans protested this week outside the U.S. Embassy here and the consulates in Johannesburg and Cape Town. Protests by political parties, trade unions and other groups were planned during Bush's stay in southern Africa, which ends Friday.

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