ALGIERS -- The representative of the Polisario Front to the UN and coordinator with MINURSO, Sidi Mohamed Omar, who is currently in the Tindouf refugee camps as p

 ROME -- World Food Programme Executive Director David Beasley's increasing involvement in peace initiatives in Africa and central Asia has divided senior executives at the UN agency with some clai

 ROME – The current political situation in Iraq post-elections poses a grave threat to the long-term peace and stability in the country due to the continuing power of militias raised to d

 ROME – In an opening statement to the recent FAO Council, Director General Qu Dongyu pledged “to take FAO’s work out of the castles and bring it to the people in

 JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s government has been rocked by a chorus of protest over its decision to drop its former officially endorsed candidate to head the IL

 ROME -- South Korean former foreign minister Kang Kyung-wha has stepped up campaigning to become head of the International Labour Organization against strong riv

 ROME --IFAD President Gilbert Houngbo's controversial bid to head the International Labour Organization has hit a setback after a rival African candidate remains

 ROME -- IFAD staff's anger over what they see as the lack of trustworthy leadership of the UN agency has extended to the sleepy Executive Board of the troubled p

 ROME – IFAD staff members have lambasted president Gilbert Houngbo, saying that the conflict of interest posed by the former Togolese prime minister’s candidature to become the director general of

ROME – “Obstructionism” by World Food Programme officials using diplomatic immunity to reject summons to give evidence to magistrates is hindering Italian investigators trying to determine responsb

 ROME – IFAD President Gilbert Houngbo announced two promotions of staff to vice president, fuelling anger among staff after the Togolese supremo created a bogus

 ROME –  IFAD vice president Dominik Ziller’s alleged penchant for office romance could cost him his chance to take over from Gilbert Houngbo if the UN agency president wins his controversial bid f

 ROME -- As French media speculated IFAD President Gilbert Houngbo is emerging as the favourite to become head of the International Labour Organization, diplomatic sources disclosed the Togolese po

 ROME – The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) appears to be choking off project finance to the FAO, suggesting that relations between the UN agency and the Bide

 ROME -- France has upped the stakes in its efforts to spike the guns of an Australian candidate to run the International Labour Organization as Paris fielded its

 ROME – The heads of the World Food Programme (WFP) and its sister agency, the FAO, have dismissed senior executives at director level found to be sex predators.

 ROME – IFAD president Gilbert Houngbo’s bid to jump ship and become director General of the International Labour Organization may have hit a snag after South African ‘thought leader’ Mthunzi Mdwab

 ROME – The Biden administration is pushing for WFP Executive Director David Beasley to stand down and be replaced by an American former diplomat, David Lane, whe

 ROME – Spain’s decades-long run of bad luck in the politics of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) evidently continues as an expected show of unity by

 ROME -- IFAD President Gilbert Houngbo was under pressure to resign Wednesday following his surprise bid to head the International Labour Organization, diplomati

 ROME -- In a move evidently backed by the Islamic Conference Organization and China, the controversial International Fund for Agricultural Development (IF

 ROME -- In a move that has surprised the diplomatic community in Rome and UN staff, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)  President Gilbert

 ROME – Dutch influence at the FAO could be set to increase further with speculation that Netherlands wheeler-dealer Ilja Betlem may be promoted to Chinese DG Qu D