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

  SANA’A – The United Nations World

 ROME – Dominic Republic Ambassador Mario Arvelo Caamano is the favourite in the race with two EU candidates (Netherlands and Hungary) for the influential post of

  BANGUI – Nearly half of the population – 47 percent – suffers from high and surging acute food insecurity in the Centr

  JERUSALEM – WFP has started providing emergency assistance for more than 51,000 people in north Gaza in response to rising humanitarian needs among families affected by the recent escalation of c

  ROME - The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will provide much needed funding to assist 23,900 vulnerable rural people (4,780 households) in the Republic of South Sudan.

  ANTANANARIVO - With each day that passes, more lives are at stake as hunger tightens its grip in southern Madagascar.

  ROME - A 77.4 million dollar project signed by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Gove

 ALGIERS – An FAO Representative has left his post in a north African capital after the UN agency executive was found by local police wearing women’s clothing dur

  ROME – A coalition of multilateral development banks and development partners has pledged over 17 billion dollars in financing on Friday during a high-level forum, in a bold bid to address rising

 KHARTOUM – A fun-loving FAO representative in one of the largest countries in Africa has as many as three wives but surprised staff by embarking on a further rom

  ANTANANARIVO – The unrelenting drought in southern Madagascar is forcing hundreds of thousands of people to the brink of famine, warns the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP).

  PEMBA – Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province is in the grips of a spiralling c

  YANGON – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is to mount a new food assistance operation, targeting up to 2 million vulnerable people in the poor townships in Myanmar’s main cities and

  PANAMA CITY – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has reached an agreement to commence operations in Venezuela with the priority of serving the most vulnerable children.

 ROME – A UN security officer working for FAO has defended his Italian boss against charges of cronyism and issued a thinly-veiled death threat against Italian Insider, saying on Twitter that an ar

 ROME – Western diplomats are outraged that FAO DG Qu Dongyu has turned the UN agency, as foreign envoys see it, into a small-scale “Wuhan on the Tiber” using Covid to continue to prohibit diplomat

  ROME – The visit to Central America by WFP Executive Director, David Beasley renews WFP’s commitment to working with vulnerable communities, offering them sustainable livelihoods and food securit

 ROME -- The widow of Senator John McCain, from Arizona, is under consideration for appointment by the Biden administration as US Ambassador to the FAO and WFP, d

  DAKAR - Millions of families in West and Central Africa are growing more hun

 ROME – At least two of five FAO security guard team leaders promoted by the ambitious former Carabinieri colonel in charge of securing the sensitive UN agency cannot speak English and would be una

 ROME -- Experienced security guards at the FAO with firearms and language training are being passed over for promotion by the UN agency's management services dir