Ghana's President, Mr. John Agyekum Kufuor (JAK) will this evening welcome onto the shores of Ghana, Mr. George Walker Bush, the President of the United States of America (USA). President Bush will be in the country for a 3-day official visit as part of his 5-nation African tour which marks the second such tour of Africa in the course of his two-term reign as President of the USA. President Bush’s first visited the African continent in 2003. He went to Senegal, South Africa, Botswana, Uganda and Nigeria then. Ghana is the fourth leg of President Bush's current African tour. He has already been to Benin, Rwanda, Tanzania with Liberia as the last stop, after Ghana. The two Presidents, both in the twilight of their two-term reign, will interact on issues bordering on poverty, HIV/AIDS, free trade, investment and economic, opportunity, the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA), malaria, good governance, peace and security on the continent. Tomorrow, Wednesday, February 20, 2008, President Bush would be expected to meet his Ghanaian counterpart, H.E. Mr. Kufuor at the Castle, after which the two Presidents will jointly address a Press Conference in Accra. Later in the day, according to the Head of the Public Affairs Section at the US Embassy in Accra, Mr. Chris Hodges, President Bush would attend a luncheon with some selected members of the US Peace Corps after which he visit the Ghana International School in Accra to interact with the school children. The American President would also interact with private sector business stakeholders and practitioners at the Ghana International Trade Fair. The Africa Growth and Opportunities Act (AGOA) will be the focus of that interaction. A State Dinner will be held in his honour that evening. Mr. Hodges disclosed that the American First Lady, Mrs. Laura Bush who is accompanying her husband on the African tour, would also visit a primary school at Mallam, a suburb of Accra, in the morning for an encounter with the pupils and then proceed to the Maamobi Polyclinic, which is a beneficiary of a US government-supported malaria-control project. Mr. Bush's visit to Ghana is the second time a sitting US President has paid an official visit to Ghana. The first was a one-day visit by President Clinton on March 23, 1998. He (Clinton) was also accompanied by his wife, Hillary Clinton, presently Senator of New York State and now campaigning for the Democratic Party's presidential slot. Until the visit of these two sitting US Presidents, the only other presidential profile visit by an American politician was that of Vice President Richard Nixon who represented the US during the March 6, 1957 Independence ceremony of newly born Ghana, nearly 51 years ago. Source: Crusading Guide