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World's super-rich have duty to lift the poor out of poverty

The richest and most influential leaders on the planet have ended their annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland even as a new startling report by Oxfam shows the world's richest one per cent grabbed nearly two-thirds of all new wealth worth $42 trillion (Sh4,200 trillion) created since 2020.

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