World Lens — Week in Review: April 17

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  • 041112 global france racial profiling lawsuit
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  • 041612 global world lens mali president Dioncounda Traore
  • 041612 global world lens Bentiu sudan attacks
  • 041612 global world lens bank president lord ahmed bounty
  • 041612 global world lens bank president barack obama summit americas
  • 041612 global world lens england blacks unemployment
  • 041612 global world lens Shah Rukh Khan
  • 041612 global world lens israeli activist attack

American Jim Yong Kim to Lead World Bank

The 52-year-old health expert Jim Yong Kim was chosen by the World Bank's board Monday to serve as the organization's next president, beating out the developing world’s favorite, Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. Okonjo-Iweala’s candidacy marked the first time a non-American was considered for the post. Days prior to the decision, former Colombian finance minister Jose Antonio Ocampo dropped his candidacy for the post, calling the race a “political exercise.”

(Photo: REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino)