CIGNA (NYSECI) announced today that it is temporarily lifting certain medical and pharmacy restrictions in order to aid individuals impacted by severe flooding in Georgia.
People insured by CIGNA in the affected Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, Crawford, DeKalb, Douglas, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Newton, Paulding, Rockdale, Stephens and Walker Counties can refill prescriptions early [...]

After the near total failure of the annual long rains in Many parts of Kenya, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today appealed for more than US$230 million to [...]

In response to an article examining USAIDs prospects, Senator Richard Lugar (RInd.) writes in a Washington Post letter to the editor that the agencys “institutional atrophy and loss of expertise” has resulted in a “proliferation of aid programs across the government with little coordination or a common framework to evaluate what works and what doesnt.” [...]

Senator John Kerry (DMass.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and ranking member, Senator Richard Lugar (RInd.), on Tuesday “introduced a bill to overhaul the U.S. system for providing global development aid,” the Boston Globe reports (Smith, 7/29). The legislation was also introduced by Senators Robert Menendez (DNJ) and Bob Corker (RTenn.), according [...]

Obamas Policy Could Make U.S.Africa Relations Flower
Although critics have said that President Obamas speech in Ghana “sounded a familiar refrain” echoing “the same message about good governance… from presidents Clinton and George W. Bush” and “[n]o new programs or initiatives” for the continent, “just because the message is [...]

The World Food Programme (WFP) issued an urgent appeal on Tuesday for $23 million in “financial support from international donors for food aid to Yemen specifically targeted at women and children,” AFP/Google.com reports. The agency said that the “figure represents 42 percent of the 55 million dollars that it needs for the current year to [...]

The resumption of fighting in Mogadishu, Somalias capital, has forced the majority of people living in the Yaqshid, Karan, and Abdul Azziz districts in the north of the city to flee, according to the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Continuous shelling, explosions, and open combat among various armed groups have [...]