ROME – Two weeks before the election of the Food and Agriculture Organisation new Director General,  Georgia’s dark horse candidate Davit Kirvalidze is emerging as a compromise figure who might win

ROME – The man whose job it is to promote work done by the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) recently came to the Foreign Press Association.

ROME — FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva is plotting to retain effective control of the UN agency by negotiating with China to remain a high level consultant while Beijing’s candidate to

 BRUSSELS – The International Federation of Journalists condemned the UN Food and Agriculture (FAO) criminal libel case against the Italian Insider Friday calling

  ROME – FAO conference services director Raqesh Muthoo has axed a key elections officer at the UN agency and appointed a reputed acolyte to the sensitive post at the UN agency amid jockeying for p

ROME – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is considering suspending aid to Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen.

ROME – The United States is considering supporting dark horse Georgia in the upcoming election for the new chief of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on the ground that the former Soviet

ZAURA – Around 65 people have drowned as they made their way to Europe from North Africa, according to sources from UNHCR, the UN’s refugee agency.

ROME - One million plants and animals will soon disappear from the face of the earth as the health of ecosystems continues to deteriorate faster than ever.

 ROME -- Francophone African countries have endorsed France's candidate to run the FAO as Uruguay announced it will vote for China's deputy agriculture minister Qu Dongyu in a sign that outgoing di

ROME – The World Food Programme (WFP) has halted distribution worldwide of a fortified blended food from one of its suppliers to test whether it is related to out

ROME – Two events will be held in Rome to celebrate World Press Freedom Day, which takes place annually on May 3.

ROME –  Candidates competing to be the next FAO director general set out their platforms during a Council Session last week but their speeches mysteriously were not broadcast on the webcast system

 ROME – The International Fund for Agriculture and Development (IFAD) President, Gilbert Houngbo, is asking the UN agency's board to leave the International Labour Organization Administrative Tribu

BRUSSELS – A report this week presented jointly by the European Union, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and the UN World Food Programme (WFP) finds that that aroun

 NEW YORK – Women attending a UN international civil servants conference complained to organisers Wednesday over the presence of FAO Human Resources Director Fernando Servan who has been dubbed a '

ROME — Cameroon has withdrawn its candidate to be the next FAO Director General following pressure from France and China, narrowing the contest to candidates from Georgia and India as well as the F

ROME — A judge at the Rome Tribunal has ordered an investigating magistrate to place Italian Insider ’s chief editor under a new investigation for alleged ‘clandestine publication’ after a lawyer f

BEIRA – The United Nations World Food Programme has stepped up its food distributions in and around Beira following the devastation caused by Cyclone Idai, the worst natural disaster to have struck

 ROME -- The World Food Programme said Tuesday that is staff may refuse to fly on an airline or type of aircraft allocated to them for official travel.

ROME – As many as eight employees from the Rome-based UN food agencies WFP and FAO were among the 157 people killed Sunday when an Ethiopian Airlines jetliner crashed soon after take off from Addis

 ROME -- FIve candidates from Cameroon, China, France, Georgia and India have thrown their hats officially in the ring for the election of the new Director General of the FAO in June, the UN agency

ROME — Asia, Africa and Europe evidently have fielded candidates to become the FAO new director general though the secretive UN agency stopped short of disclosing the names of those running in the