FACTBOX: Where Bush is and isn't going in Africa

(Reuters) - President George W. Bush travels to Africa on Friday to highlight efforts to boost development and fight AIDS and other diseases.

Below are snapshots of the countries that he will visit and some of the major ones that he will not.

WHERE BUSH WILL BE GOING:

BENIN

- Bush's first stop is Benin, which has a reputation as one of the continent's most stable democracies.

- The former French colony in west Africa, home of the Voodoo religion, has made efforts to liberalize its economy, but remains one of the world's poorest countries.

- Benin depends on cotton for up to 40 percent of exports and has campaigned against U.S. cotton industry subsidies.

TANZANIA

- Tanzania, in east Africa, is another stable country and where Bush will spend the longest stretch of his visit.

- Tanzania has wooed investors in tourism and mining, but remains desperately poor and in need of foreign aid.

- The U.S. embassy in Tanzania was targeted in a 1998 bomb attack linked to al Qaeda at the same time as an even deadlier one in neighboring Kenya.

- President Jakaya Kikwete was elected in 2005 and last month won the rotating chairmanship of the African Union.

RWANDA

- Rwanda is still rebuilding after the genocide of 800,000 minority Tutsis and moderates from the Hutu majority in 1994.

- President Paul Kagame, a Tutsi, came to power as a rebel leader during the killings. He won a 2003 presidential election.

- He has long favored ties with Washington and has had sour relations with France, which backed the former regime.