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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 ROME — After what now looks like the token axeing of the FAO HR director for alleged serial sex harassment, the new Chinese supremo at the UN poverty-busting agency seems to be following in the fo

 BERLIN – Germany’s support for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is crucial for continued assistance to millions of Syrians inside and outside the country, said the UN

 ROME – The United Nations World Food Programme is putting together an emergency response to provide food to Ebola survivors and those potentially carrying the virus.

ROME – FAO Chinese supremo Qu Dongyu faced the first major diplomatic test of his reign Tuesday after host country Italy’s nationalist government demanded it be given a deputy director general posi

 ROME – The Food and Agriculture Organization advertised Monday for a new Human Resources director following the dismissal this month by the new Chinese management of HR supremo Fernando Servan in

 ROME — FAO staff and consultants paid tribute Monday at their headquarters to former director general Jacques Diouf, who died last week-end at age 81.

 ROME -- The new Beijing-ruled regime at the FAO has got off to a chaotic start as new Chinese attachés hired to the Cabinet of the UN agency have little or no knowledge and are incapable of speaki

 ROME -- The Food and Agriculture Organization confirmed this week the departure of its former Human Resources director Fernando Servan following his investigation and summary dismissal amid charge

 GENEVA – Protecting and restoring forests and urgently revamping the global food system through dietary change are the key solutions to the escalating land and climate crisis, an authoritative UN