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Interview transcript: Georgian candidate for the FAO DG
Georgian FAO candidate wants staff to be 'part of family'
ROME – Georgia’s candidate for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director General, Davit Kirvalidze, pledged Wednesday to involve all professional staff at the UN agency in planning a bo
India pulls out of FAO DG race
ROME -- India pulled its candidate out of the race to become Director General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation Thursday, leaving Georgia as the only developing country in the contest ag
Dark horse Georgia challenges FAO race favourites
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
A very brief guide to the places you don’t read about enough
Comment: why don’t we read about humanitarian disasters?
Graziano 'plots to continue running FAO'
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
International Federation Journalists slams FAO lawsuit against Insider
BRUSSELS – The International Federation of Journalists condemned the UN Food and Agriculture (FAO) criminal libel case against the Italian Insider Friday calling
FAO Election officer 'axed' ahead of DG poll
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
WFP may suspend aid to Yemen
United States 'may vote for Georgia' to run FAO
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
65 refugees drown off Tunisian coast
One in eight species will soon become extinct UN warns
Franco-Chinese battle to run FAO intensifies
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
Deaths halt UN's Super Cereal distribution
World Press Freedom Day
FAO candidates' 'webcasts binned' amid manipulation fears
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
Exclusive: IFAD to quit ILO Tribunal amid sex scandal
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
Hunger still affects over 100 million people globally
Exclusive:Women protest FAO 'predator' invite to conference
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 '
Blow to French FAO bid as Italy 'backs China'
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
New FAO bid to close Italian Insider
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
WFP ramps up response to Mozambique cyclone devastation
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
Finland grants IFAD loan of 50 million euros
ROME - The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has received a loan of 50 million euros from Finland as part of a long-term partnership between the two consolidated by the visit o