ROME -- The axeing of former EU investment guru Roberto Ridolfi from his position as an FAO Assistant Director General has left five other ADGs being held
ROME -- The FAO former ADG Roberto Ridolfi evidently has had his contract terminated and left the UN agency amid concern over alleged conflicts of interests the
ROME --A flight carrying the leader of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (North), Abdulaziz Al-Hilu, was expressly authorized by the WFP Executive Director, David Beasley, to facilitate negotiatio
ROME – Algeria’s upcoming referendum gives the north African nation a chance to reform its constitution meaningfully for the first time since independence
ROME – Staff at the WFP office in Sudan are concerned they may be at risk from retaliation after Gavin Gramstad, a Special Assistant to the WFP Executive Directo
ROME – A self-styled group of ‘concerned WFP staff’ has raised questions about the appointment of American aid worker and consultant Gavin Gramstad as a Special
ROME -- A former senior economist at the UN Food and Agriculture organization has strongly denied reports that he allegedly defrauded the UN agency of as much as
ROME – As FAO diplomats try to resume work after the summer break, they continue to watch FAO, as far as they can, to understand the management of Chinese DG Qu Dongyu in his second year in office.
ROME -- An EU probe into a top FAO executive is the latest in a long string of scandals that have rocked UN agencies in Italy over the past decade including alle
ROME -- An FAO Representative in Asia, a senior executive of the WFP and a Maltese diplomat are among UN agency executives and diplomats who have failed to upgra
OUAGADOUGOU – Urgent and sustained action is needed to address worsening food and nutrition insecurity in Burkina Faso, say the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the
ROME – A large shipwreck off the Libyan coast saw 45 migrants drown on Monday and the UNHCR, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and IOM, the International Organization for Migration have
ROME – Chinese FAO Director General Qu Dongyu has included symbolically three Americans in his 10-person ‘politburo’ senior management team but Western donors ar
ROME – As agencies of the United Nations continue with a process of unpaid remote internships, over 1000 UN staff and interns have urged the UN chief not to go ahead with plans to introduce them on
ROME – The return of doughty Mexican hungercrat Gina Casar to the World Food Programme has divided the agency between legions of supporters and detractors as she
ROME – Western diplomats tried to no avail at a Council meeting last week of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to present a uniform position on organic reform of the UN agency introduced
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