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Africa Inequality Report

Africa’s Richest Four Hold More Wealth Than Half the Continent - OXFAM

In 2000, Africa had no billionaires. Today it has 23 whose combined wealth has soared by 56% in just the past five years, reaching a staggering $112.6 billion.Africa’s richest 5% hold nearly $4…

Ebola response

Urgent action is needed to contain the Ebola outbreak in Uganda

Uganda, February 10, 2025: Uganda faces a growing public health crisis with an Ebola (Sudan strain) outbreak declared on January 30, alongside existing MPOX and cholera outbreaks. So far, 9…

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Billionaire Wealth Surges By $2 Trillion In 2024, Three Times Faster Than The Year Before, While The Number Of People Living In Poverty Has Barely Reduced Since 1990

Oxfam predicts there will be at least five trillionaires a decade from now.204 new billionaires were minted in 2024, nearly four every week.Sixty percent of billionaire wealth is now derived from…

Climate Finance UG

New Oxfam and ACODE Uganda Report Highlights the Need for Enhanced Climate and Fiscal Justice in Uganda

Kampala, Uganda 30th Oct 2024Oxfam in Uganda, in partnership with the Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment (ACODE), today released an in-depth report on climate finance in Uganda…

“Disastrous and anti-development” education and health cuts by nearly every African country under World Bank and IMF programs

New global index reveals that nine out of ten African countries are pursuing policies that are likely to increase levels of economic inequality. Ninety-four percent of African countries (44 out of 47…

ReCIPE project launch

Oxfam and CCG launch the ‘ReCIPE Project’ To Transform Digital Rights In Uganda

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE(Kampala, 15th August 2024) Oxfam, in partnership with the Center for Constitutional Governance (CCG), has today launched the ‘Recentering the Civic Internet through Partnership…

Non-food Items at the Mbale Regional contingency Warehouse

Launch of the Mt. Elgon Regional contingency Warehouse: A Milestone in Disaster Preparedness and Response

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE(Mbale, Uganda – July 10, 2024) – Oxfam in Uganda, and consortium partners, Catholic Relief Services (CRS), Caritas Tororo and Uganda Red Cross Society (URCS) have today launched…

Oxfam in Uganda water

In the ten worst-hit countries, increasing floods and drought forced 8 million displacements last year – over twice that of a decade ago

Hunger nearly tripled in five of these countries over the same period. Water-related disasters forced people to flee from their homes nearly eight million separate times in 10 of the world’s worst-…

Press release - DAVOS 2024

Seven richest Africans have more wealth than the poorest half of the continent’s population

Africa’s richest 1 percent own nearly half of the continent’s total financial wealth. A tax of up to 5 percent on Africa’s super-rich could generate an annual amount of $11.9 billion, nearly enough…

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Wealth of five richest men doubles since 2020 as five billion people made poorer in “decade of division,” says Oxfam

Wealth of five richest men doubles since 2020 as five billion people made poorer in “decade of division,” says Oxfam Fortunes of five richest men have shot up by 114 percent since 2020.Oxfam predicts…