ADDIS ABABA – A United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) convoy of 50 truck

  CARACAS –  The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) started its school meals programme in Venezuela this week, with the first distributions of take-home food rations to children enrolled in

  PEMBA – The UN World Food Programme (WFP) warns that without urgent funding, one of the world’s fastest-growing displacement crises in northern Mozambique risks becoming a hunger emergency as fam

  DODOMA - The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will provide funding to assist 6,240 vulnerable small-scale farmers in rural Tanzania impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

ROME – The new geopolitics of the East Mediterranean and the emergent trilateral partnerships of Cyprus-Greece-Israel and Cyprus-Greece-Egypt means that all Mediterranean regions should be seen as

  MATERA - In the first-ever joint declaration by foreign affairs and developm

 ROME – A video of a former dedicated woman employee of the World Food Programme who worked for the UN agency for 17 years in senior positions in Africa has gone

 ROME -- Philippines Ambassador to Italy and the FAO Domingo Nolasco and senior executives of the WFP, FAO, IFAD and UNESCO are among UN agency executives and diplomats who have failed to upgrade t

ROME - Everyday Libyans are realising the substantial chasm which had been left after the destructive war in 2011. 

ROME – The future of Afghanistan hangs on a knife edge between renewed civil war or a possibility of an outbreak of peace, after the US withdraws after 20 years of Afghan engagement, according to a

 ROME -- The FAO Conference has elected Ambassador Hans Hoogeveen, the Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations in Rome,

  ROME – Millions of refugees are looking to a future of uncertainty and hunger as the effects of the pandemic on aid budgets play out in funding shortages for emergency operations, the United Nati

  ROME – This weekend, leaders of the G7 acknowledged the unprecedented humanitarian crisis our world faces today as mor

  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