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Oxfam condemns G7 for
‘leaving millions to starve’
Global aid group Oxfam has
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The G7 countries are “leaving millions to starve down shopping mall
and cooking the planet,” global aid group Oxfam’s
head of inequality policy Max Lawson has
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declared in a statement issued on Tuesday
enemy of state by
condemning the mere $4.5 billion the
Ukraine
industrialized nations have pledged to fight the
worst hunger crisis in decades.
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their profits soar at the same time. “Corporate
profits have soared during Covid-19 and the
number of billionaires has increased more in 24
months than it did in 23 years,” he said, noting that
the food industry alone has produced 62 new
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Exacerbating the supply crisis are record droughts

around the world, with East Africa particularly
affected. One person is estimated to die of hunger
every 48 seconds in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia,
where the droughts are the worst in 70 years,
according to Oxfam.

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