ROME – Brazilian FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva, preparing to step down in 2019, secretly has appointed his Uruguayan chef de cabinet Mario Lubetkin to the position of Assistant Direct

ROME — Brazilian FAO honcho Adoniram Sanches Peraci has been appointed Regional subdirector for central America for the UN agency, based in Panama, FAO Director General

ROME – Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has caused "concern" and "embarrassment" from within the Italian defence ministry during a visit to Israel over his comments characterising Hezbollah as “ter

ROME - When it comes to fighting organised crime, Italy has the expertise.

ROME - Donal Brown, IFAD Associate Vice-President, Programme Management Department, met with government officials during a four-day visit to Egypt centred around IFAD investments to galvanize rural

ROME – At a Mediatrends meeting between journalists and South American ambassadors, the Communications Director for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation spoke of the danger caused b

ROME – The UN Refugee Agency has called for the end of refugee detention and an increase in the number of resettlement places for migrants after the total number of evacuees from Libya reached 2,50

ROME – The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has released a report which assesses the success of initiatives set out for migrants and refugees in Italy, dipl

 ROME – Plans by International Fund for Agricultural Development President Gilbert Houngbo to allow the UN agency to buy and sell companies in developed countries rather than making loans to develo

SHARM EL SHEIKH – The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) released its latest report on the transformation of rural areas at the weekend, renewing its commitment to empower young

ROME – Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze has put forward Dr.

ROME - Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini arrived at Pratica di Mare Airport on Wednesday to greet 51 migrants.

ROME - The nomination by President Macron of a French woman candidate to be the next director general at the Food and Agriculture Agency (FAO) holds out hope for a new era at the UN agency as the e

ROME - A bilateral meeting arranged between Conte, Haftar and Libyan prime minister Fayez Al-Sarraj on Tuesday morning reportedly ended amicably, as leaders shook hands before going their separate

ROME – The FAO has dismissed an eyewitness account of sexual harassment by HR chief Fernando Servas as “a rumour concerning activities outside the workplace” and in typical UN whitewash style claim

ROME - An agreement to open a new sub-regional office in Istanbul, for the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a specialised agency of the United Nations, was signed yesterday w

ROME – The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has expressed its concern over the Italian government's security decree on migrants currently being discussed in the Italian Senate, according to a statement re

ROME – The UN fund UNICEF has responded to allegations of laundering and embezzlement from Italian shareholders in a recipient corporation in a manner that has left its donors none the wiser, Il Fa

 ROME – The Peruvian director of Human Resources at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Fernando Servan, climaxed an alcohol-fuelled evening with

 ROME – The FAO Director General, José Graziano da Silva, has conceded that the UN agency is in a ‘cash crisis’ due to late contributions payment by member countries though he stopped short of disc

ROME – Scores of Italian consultants have left the FAO after the UN agency told them that their contracts would not be extended beyond the end of October as part of a new policy by Director General