Four African billionaires richer than 750 million people living on the continent

A child being tested for malnutrition by the World Food Programme at a camp in El Fasher, Darfur, Sudan on 27 March, here seen in a screengrab from a video. via REUTERS - WFP

Africa’s wealth disparity has reached unprecedented levels, with just four billionaires now holding more wealth than 750 million people combined – half the continent’s population.

According to a report from Oxfam entitled Africa’s Inequality Crisis and the Rise of the Super-Rich, released on Thusday, Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote, South Africans Johann Rupert and Nicky Oppenheimer and Egyptian businessman Nassef Sawiris control a combined $57.4 billion (€49.07bn).