Africa Business Radio

Elon Musk challenged a United Nations official’s claim that just a small percentage of his wealth could help solve world hunger.Musk was responding to comments by David Beasley, director of the UN’s World Food Programme, who made a call asking billionaires like Musk to step up now, on a one-time basis.Beasley specifically called for action from Musk and Amazon.com Inc. co-founder Jeff Bezos, the two men atop the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.Beasley says just $6 billion could keep 42 million people from dying.Musk says If the World Food Programme, using transparent and open accounting, can describe on this Twitter thread exactly how $6B will solve world hunger, he will sell Tesla stock and do it.