ROME – The appointment of convicted Russian moneylaunderer Vladimir Kusnetsov to the FAO finance committee was opposed in vain by the United States and FAO’s new Chinese Qu Dongyu has turned a bli

NEW YORK – The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Qu Dongyu has said that greater action is needed to prevent a humanitarian crisis in East Africa, with a Desert Locust

 ROME -- Investigators probing a former head of the human resources department at the FAO on charges of allegedly demanding cash in return for jobs as well

 ROME -- The World Food Programme deputy execu

 ROME – An Italian preliminary judge has scheduled a new court hearing for March 26 in the second criminal libel case brought by the FAO director general against

Rome — Fierce competition has erupted in legal circles in the Eternal City to replace the veteran FAO Portuguese legal counsel, Antonio Tavares, who is retiring as the head of the UN agency’s legal

BRUSSELS –  On Tuesday the Council of the European Union met and agreed to revive Operation Sophia, which aims to prevent the Libyan arms trade and maintain the ceasefire officially in effect since

 JOHANNESBURG AND LONDON – A record 45 million people in the 16-nation Southern African Development Community are gravely food insecure following repeated droughts, widespread flooding and economic

ROME – A bizarre and partly rigged scheme by FAO Director General Qu Dongyu for staff to elect the 100 Best Employees at the UN agency and the Best Young 100 employees has left most hungercrats baf

 ROME – Åslaug Marie Haga has joined the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) as Associate Vice-President of the External Relations and Governance Department, IFAD said in a press

 ROME – The Swedish Government has contributed 100 million Swedish krona (approximately 10.5 million U.S.

 ROME – Escalating hunger needs in sub-Saharan Africa dominate a World Food Programme (WFP) analysis of global hunger hotspots in the first half of 2020, with millions of people requiring life-savi

 ROME – FAO investigators are dragging their feet over opening a formal probe into ADG Roberto Ridolfi’s evident conflict of interest using his position at the U.

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 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 — Chilean CIO director at the FAO, Samuel Varas, has been sacked as part of a wide ranging purge at the UN agency in which Chinese officials have taken over the IT division, FAO sources said.

 ROME -- FAO Assistant Director General Roberto Ridolfi's son Francesco sent an email to the Fiera di Roma president Pietro Piccinetti last year attaching a draft consultancy contract under which t

ROME – FAO ADG Roberto Ridolfi played a key role this year in advising the Fiera di Roma trade fair how to garner funds from the ENEL energy corporation for the ExCo cooperation fair and Fiera di R

 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 Costa RIca, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Romania and China are among envoys who have failed to upgrade their subscriptions to Italian Insider’s modest diplomatic subscr