ROME -- The International Fund for Agricultural Development IFAD has defended a decision by President Gilbert Houngbo to recall to the Eternal City employees who

NAPLES – A World Health Organisation (WHO) representative spoke out against the thousands of people on the street of the Campania capital during the coronavirus crisis, as they celebrated the Azzur

ROME – The United States remains “fully engaged” in the UN Food and Agriculture Organization as the largest single contributor despite owing the UN agency as much as dlrs 46 million in arrears, a s

ROME – Coronavirus may push an additional 10 million of the world’s children into acute malnutrition, accounting for a potential increase by 20 per cent, according to estimates from The United Nati

  ROME -- A surprise decision by the FAO Director General, Qu Dongyu, to reallocate radically six assistant directors' job descriptions and move the once powerful

ROME – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has kick-started a network of global logistical hubs with the departure on Thursday of a cargo plane carrying almost 16 metric tons of medical c

ROME – As coronavirus pushes up levels of hunger, 370 million children are at risk due to school closures which deprive them of school meals, according to The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF

    ROME - An FAO employee from the UN agency's headquarters staff who was infected with Covid 19 has died of the virus, FAO sources said.

ROME – Former US Republican Governor of South Carolina, David Beasley, who is the current head of the U.N.’s World Food Programme (WFP), has confirmed that he has tested positive for the coronaviru

ROME — An employee of the FAO tested positive earlier this month with Coronavirus and was hospitalized, Director General Qu Dongyu disclosed Tuesday.

ANKARA – The World Food Programme (WFP) and the European Union (EU), in collaboration with the Turkish government and the Turkish Red Crescent, have prevented 1.7 million refugees from hitting terr

ROME – The director general of the Food and Agriculture Organisation, Qu Dongyu, has entered self-isolation as he has been teleworking from home over the last week, according to an FAO news release

ROME – FAO’s new chief of cabinet has cracked the whip on the UN agencies’ assistant director generals, apprising each of them of their duties under an ‘overseer’ deputy director general in an appa

 ROME -- Uruguayan executive Mario Lubetkin was terminated as FAO chef de cabinet Friday by the Chinese director general of the UN agency, Qu Dongyu, and replaced by Godfrey Magwenzi, a Zimbabwean

CAIRO – Emergency food assistance to people in desperate need will continue in northwest Syria, after a temporarily halt following an escalation in hostilities, reports a World Food Programme (WFP)

 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