BY NEW BUSINESS ETHIOPIA REPORTER
A Global Monitoring Report (GMR) jointly produced by the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) revealed that Ethiopia’s extreme poverty rate has halved from a high of 62 percent in 1990 to about 31 percent by 2011. 
Climate Investment Funds (CIF) today gave the go-ahead to Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia to proceed with an updated version of a sweeping plan to create an unprecedented 1,120 megawatts (MW) of energy from Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) for the region with total funding of 7.6 billion US dollars. 
GRAMMY award-winning singer-songwriter, Lenny Kravitz, who is also record producer and actor joined the United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF) to bring about an end to preventable child deaths. 
Based on south-south cooperation Chinese and African leaders today come together at the 4th International Roundtable on China-Africa Health Cooperation to explore new partnerships to address the most pressing health challenges facing Africa and strengthen an innovative health partnership . 
Despite enduring political and economic challenges, 20 fragile and conflict-affected states have recently met one or more targets under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), according to a new analysis by the World Bank Group released today.
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