GOMA - Italian prosecuting authorities investigating the death of Ambassador Luca Attanasio in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have placed an official of the UN's World Food Programme

 ROME – An Italian appeal court on Friday rejected an appeal by Italian Insider’s chief editor against his lower court conviction on charges of criminally "tarnish

  MEKELE – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has provided emergency food assistance to 1 million people since starting distributions in Northwestern and Southern zones of Tigray region

  ROME - The Centre for Global Development has published a report on the Quality of Official Development Assistance (QuODA) measuring and comparing the performance of 49 countries and global agenci

  ROME - Economic empowerment of rural women as farmers, entrepreneurs and leaders contributes towards alleviating pover

 ROME -- Western diplomats accredited to the FAO have been mulling the relevance to the UN poverty-busting agency of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedne

ROME –  Bahraini women journalists are spearheading the battle for equal rights with men in the conservative Gulf, an EGIC conference on gender equality and the middle east heard.

 ROME -- Jaded FAO staff struggling to work from home without human contact with their colleagues were not overly impressed by a town hall meeting presided over b

 ROME -- EU countries are divided and evidently increasingly at odds with the EU Commission in Brussels over extra-budget financing for FAO activities including relief of emergencies, diplomatic so

  GOMA - Several people have been arrested in the Congo for the murder on Feb.

  ROME - The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the European Union (EU) will provide 26.5 million euros worth of liquidity and debt relief to rural financial institutions to

  SANA’A – The United Nations World

 ROME – Dominic Republic Ambassador Mario Arvelo Caamano is the favourite in the race with two EU candidates (Netherlands and Hungary) for the influential post of

  BANGUI – Nearly half of the population – 47 percent – suffers from high and surging acute food insecurity in the Centr

  JERUSALEM – WFP has started providing emergency assistance for more than 51,000 people in north Gaza in response to rising humanitarian needs among families affected by the recent escalation of c

  ROME - The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will provide much needed funding to assist 23,900 vulnerable rural people (4,780 households) in the Republic of South Sudan.

  ANTANANARIVO - With each day that passes, more lives are at stake as hunger tightens its grip in southern Madagascar.

  ROME - A 77.4 million dollar project signed by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Gove

 ALGIERS – An FAO Representative has left his post in a north African capital after the UN agency executive was found by local police wearing women’s clothing dur

  ROME – A coalition of multilateral development banks and development partners has pledged over 17 billion dollars in financing on Friday during a high-level forum, in a bold bid to address rising

 KHARTOUM – A fun-loving FAO representative in one of the largest countries in Africa has as many as three wives but surprised staff by embarking on a further rom

  ANTANANARIVO – The unrelenting drought in southern Madagascar is forcing hundreds of thousands of people to the brink of famine, warns the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP).

  PEMBA – Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province is in the grips of a spiralling c

  YANGON – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is to mount a new food assistance operation, targeting up to 2 million vulnerable people in the poor townships in Myanmar’s main cities and