Helsinki — Less than six months into his job at the helm of the World Bank, Paul
Wolfowitz has announced that tackling poverty and deprivations in Africa is
going to be the World Bank's top priority.
"I think the situation of sub-Saharan Africa is not acceptable. It has
to be the first priority of the World Bank," he told members of the
Parliamentary Network on the World Bank (PNoWB) meeting here at the Finnish
Parliament over the weekend.
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