ROME – The World Food Programme (WFP) has issued a press statement stating that it is “rapidly expanding an already sizeable emergency operation in Zimbabwe where drought, flooding and macro-econo

 ROME -- A senior Italian Food and Agriculture Organization executive's bid to become No 2.

 ROME-- FAO Assistant Director General Roberto Ridolfi has strongly denied any conflict of interest between his institutional role and his support of the EXCO cooperation fair held in the Eternal C

 ROME --  Diplomats from Switzerland, Romania and China are among envoys who have failed to upgrade their subscriptions to Italian Insider’s modest diplomatic subscription rate despite repeated req

ROME – The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will splurge as much as half a million euros of taxpayers’ money on building a huge tent structure on its headquarters car park to

 ROME – China’s victory in the Food and Agriculture Organization election due to bungled U.S.

 ROME – Staff at the FAO have welcomed the approachable, open style of their new director general Qu Dongyu as senior Latin American and Hispanic executives appointed by the previous Brazilian regi

 ROME – Ever smiling Chinese FAO Director General Qu Dongyu has surrounded himself with a team of seven countrymen or women appointed by the Communist Government in Beijing headed by Guangzhou Qu,

  ROME -- The WFP woman employee accused by the wife of WFP Deputy Executive Director Amir Abdulla of being his lover has strongly denied ever having had an affair with the powerful Sudanese potent

ROME – International news agencies were poised to record the possible resignation of embattled World Food Programme Number 2 honcho Amir Mahmoud Abdulla Wednesday as donors to the UN agency quizzed

ROME – WFP Executive Director David Beasley has told directors of the UN agency to drop a petition they began circulating in support of beleaguered Deputy Director Amir 'Pasha' Abdulla, telling the

 ROME – WFP Deputy Director Amir Abdulla’s extracurricular amorous activities have been an open secret at the agency for years but controversial Director of Investigators (OIGI) Barnardin Assiene c

 ROME– Four World Food Programme women employees have accused Sudanese Deputy Director Amir Abdulla of coercing them into sex while working at the Rome-based UN f

 ROME – An irate wife’s email to fellow members of the World Food Programme book club blew the whistle on Sudanese Deputy Executive Director Amir Abdulla’s amorou

 ROME – World Food Programme Deputy Director Amir Abdulla came under pressure to resign before he is fired Saturday after an external review on sexual harassment

ROME – Dozens of World Food Progamme women staffers say they have been raped or subject to attempted rape or other sexual assault by senior colleagues or bosses while working at the UN agency, many

ROME – FAO Director General Qu Dongyu has relaxed a curb on business class travel by hungercrats at the UN agency, raising hopes among staff that China may increase its contribution to the embattle

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