US President George W. Bush (C) meets wi

US President George W. Bush (C) meets with West African leaders (fromL) President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah of Sierra Leone, President Amadou Toumani of Mali, President Pedro Pires of Cape Verde, Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade, President John Kufuor of Ghana, President Mathieu Kerekou of Benin, President Yahya Jammeh of the Gambia, and President Mamadou Tandja of Niger at the Presidential Palace in Dakar 08 July 2003. Bush and Wade then toured of a "slave house" on Goree Island in Senegal. Bush is on a five-day, five-nation trip through sub-Sahara Africa. AFP PHOTO/Tim SLOAN (Photo credit should read TIM SLOAN/AFP via Getty Images)