IFAD vetoes staff bid to help Ukrainian refugees
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ROME -- The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has stopped short of calling Russia's war in Ukraine an invasion or war, referring to the conflict as only
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ROME -- A former FAO employee has won a hard-fought victory and was awarded damages in a lengthy legal battle against the UN agency management after the ILO Administrative Tribunal recognized her
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ROME -- The Italian Supreme Court is scheduled to hear March 29 the appeal lodged in the Court of Cassation against the unfair conviction of Insider editor John
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ROME – Diplomats accredited to the World Food Programme and sister agency FAO are waiting gripped for the outcome of the "internal selection process" of the WFP Executive Director under way as the
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ROME – A United Nations security officer Mansour Rwagaza and deputy head of the World Food Programme in eastern Congo Rocco Leone are on trial for manslaughter, having allegedly failed to
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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ROME -- South Korean former foreign minister Kang Kyung-wha has stepped up campaigning to become head of the International Labour Organization against strong riv
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ROME --IFAD President Gilbert Houngbo's controversial bid to head the International Labour Organization has hit a setback after a rival African candidate remains
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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
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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
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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
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ROME – IFAD President Gilbert Houngbo announced two promotions of staff to vice president, fuelling anger among staff after the Togolese supremo created a bogus
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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