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Oxfam calls time on global wealth inequality
The charity released findings which show that the world’s 22 richest men have more wealth than 325 million women in Africa
Demonstrators against inequality march to the office of the president in downtown Nairobi, Kenya Friday. The march kicks off a week of planned global protests aimed at calling for an end to the "age of greed" and demanding fairer solutions to inequality, climate change, debt, taxation and other economic and human rights issues ahead of the World Economic Forum which is due to take place in Davos, Switzerland

OXFAM urged world leaders to get “serious” about tackling the global wealth inequality crisis as Boris Johnson schmoozed at the UK-Africa Investment Summit today.

The charity released findings which show that the world’s 22 richest men have more wealth than 325 million women in Africa.

It was published as PM Boris Johnson carved up aid money with 21 African leaders, British and African companies and City finance firms at London’s luxury Intercontinental Hotel.

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