ROME – Plans by International Fund for Agricultural Development President Gilbert Houngbo to allow the UN agency to buy and sell companies in developed countries rather than making loans to develo

SHARM EL SHEIKH – The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) released its latest report on the transformation of rural areas at the weekend, renewing its commitment to empower young

ROME – Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze has put forward Dr.

ROME - Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini arrived at Pratica di Mare Airport on Wednesday to greet 51 migrants.

ROME - The nomination by President Macron of a French woman candidate to be the next director general at the Food and Agriculture Agency (FAO) holds out hope for a new era at the UN agency as the e

ROME - A bilateral meeting arranged between Conte, Haftar and Libyan prime minister Fayez Al-Sarraj on Tuesday morning reportedly ended amicably, as leaders shook hands before going their separate

ROME – The FAO has dismissed an eyewitness account of sexual harassment by HR chief Fernando Servas as “a rumour concerning activities outside the workplace” and in typical UN whitewash style claim

ROME - An agreement to open a new sub-regional office in Istanbul, for the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a specialised agency of the United Nations, was signed yesterday w

ROME – The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has expressed its concern over the Italian government's security decree on migrants currently being discussed in the Italian Senate, according to a statement re

ROME – The UN fund UNICEF has responded to allegations of laundering and embezzlement from Italian shareholders in a recipient corporation in a manner that has left its donors none the wiser, Il Fa

 ROME – The Peruvian director of Human Resources at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Fernando Servan, climaxed an alcohol-fuelled evening with

ROME - The international conference "Leaving no one behind - making the case for adolescent girls," will take place at IFAD headquarters in Rome on Monday.

ROME – FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva and his wife took time off the other day to join a rally in support of PT Brazilian candidate Fernando Haddad outside the Brazilian Embassy in Pia

 ROME – The FAO Director General, José Graziano da Silva, has conceded that the UN agency is in a ‘cash crisis’ due to late contributions payment by member countries though he stopped short of disc

VATICAN CITY – As world leaders gather in Rome at the FAO headquarters for World Food Day, the Vatican has released a letter from Pope Francis to Director General of the UN organisation, José Grazi

 ROME — The FAO is having major cash flow problems because Brazil’s government no longer supports Brazilian Director General José Graziano da Silva and Brasilia has not paid Brazil’s contribution t

GENEVA - Migrants crossing from Libya to Italy are more at risk than ever warns the UNHCR after the Aquarius has been confined to port following first Gibraltar and then Panama removing their flags

ROME – Scores of Italian consultants have left the FAO after the UN agency told them that their contracts would not be extended beyond the end of October as part of a new policy by Director General

 ROME – FAO Director General Jose Graziano da Silva is sueing the Italian Insider newspaper for a second time, claiming that articles about his appointment of Peruvian former first lady Nadine Here

ROME – UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi has pleaded with the international community to tone down the political rhetoric to do with refugees, in a press conference in Rome on Friday

ROME - World hunger is rising, with 821 million people – 17 million more than in the previous year – going hungry in 2017, a UN report has revealed on Tuesday.

ROME – Interior minister Matteo Salvini has hit back at the UN’s newly appointed High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet for slamming Italy’s treatment of migrants as “inappropriate, u

ROME -- FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva, bowing to intense pressure from donor countries spearheaded by the United States, agreed at a stormy FAO Council meeting to implement extending