ROME – As disclosed first by the Italian Insider, United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley has nominated a fellow former South Carolina governor – David Beasley – to head the World Food Programme. 

ROME — The Republican politician chosen by Washington to be the next WFP Executive Director may receive a warm welcome from Pope Francis for his pro-life views though he

 ROME - The Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP), Ertharin Cousin and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, are very concerned that critical shortages in food assis

ROME – As Ertharin Cousin presided over a swan song meeting of the World Food Programme leadership Monday, observers said the Trump administration may seek to cut funding to the UN agency because S

 ROME – The Brazilian engineer replacing Nadine Heredia at the FAO Geneva liason office, Celso Mendes de Carvalho, was best known at the UN agency for his romantic liason with Paola Dini, the daugh

LIMA -- The FAO has dismissed former Peruvian first lady Nadine Heredia and replaced her with a Brazilian engineer as head of the UN agency’s Geneva office, Peruvian media reported Saturday.

  ROME -- Gilbert Fossoun Houngbo, former Prime Minister of Togo, has been appointed as the sixth President of the International Fund for Agricultu

 WASHINGTON -- Former South Carolina Governor David M.

 ROME -- Angela Merkel insists Vladimir Putin should not be invited to the G7 summit, yet Italy - suffering economically - would like to readmit the Russian President, Roman daily Il Messaggero rep

ROME -- David M.

CAIRO — The FAO “clandestine” office in Riyadh occupies a floor at the Saudi ministry of Agriculture and in Kafkaesque fashion is known only as “the Unit” to officials f

ROME – Genial French boffin Laurent Thomas will be named Deputy Director General for climate change at the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation in a move that embattled Director General José Grazia

 WASHINGTON – Republican House Foreign Affairs subcommittee Chairman Chris Smith lambasted the FAO Thursday for seeking "to silence truthtellers" inside the UN agency and slammed Director General J

CAIRO – Two managers from the FAO’s graft-ravaged Saudi Arabian operation have been fired belatedly after the UN agency was forced to pay compensation to an Egyptian agronomist and whistleblower wh

ROME — Dr Maria Eugenia Casar Pérez, Mexico’s ambitious candidate to be president of IFAD, raised eyebrows in New York when she pushed for the U.N.

ROME – World Food Programme human resources czarina Prerana Issar is moving sideways to a new role as head of Partnerships as part of fin de régime changes that the outgoing Execut

 ROME -- World Food Programme Executive Director, Ertharin Cousin, acknowledging a veto from the Trump administration, has renounced her candidatur

 LIMA -- The Peruvian parliament's President of the Commission of Control, Héctor Becerril, who is investigating ex-First Lady of Peru Nadine Hered

WASHINGTON – FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva should make a “’public and humble” apology to FAO members over the fiasco appointment of Peruvian former first lady Nadine Heredia to the UN