ROME -- The new Director General of the FAO, Qu Dongyu, has underlined his emphasis on the UN agency's work in Africa by appointing as a special advisor a Zimbab

ROME – The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will splurge as much as half a million euros of taxpayers’ money on building a huge tent structure on its headquarters car park to

 ROME – China’s victory in the Food and Agriculture Organization election due to bungled U.S.

 ROME – Staff at the FAO have welcomed the approachable, open style of their new director general Qu Dongyu as senior Latin American and Hispanic executives appointed by the previous Brazilian regi

 VATICAN CITY – The Vatican Secretariat of State is suspected of having used money given to the Church as charity to buy property in London. The Secretariat has 6

 ROME – Ever smiling Chinese FAO Director General Qu Dongyu has surrounded himself with a team of seven countrymen or women appointed by the Communist Government in Beijing headed by Guangzhou Qu,

 ROME - The European Union's Foreign and Political Commissions, of the Italian Parliament, have recently held the hearing of the Ambassador of the Republic of Finland in Italy, Ms.

 Rome -- Gaby Ford's latest production in conjunction with the John Cabot University opens at the end of October.

  ROME -- The WFP woman employee accused by the wife of WFP Deputy Executive Director Amir Abdulla of being his lover has strongly denied ever having had an affair with the powerful Sudanese potent

ROME – The 16th edition of the prize of the Taste Group of the Foreign Press Association in Italy will be held in Ascoli Piceno Nov.

ROME – International news agencies were poised to record the possible resignation of embattled World Food Programme Number 2 honcho Amir Mahmoud Abdulla Wednesday as donors to the UN agency quizzed

 ROME – The Italian Insider approaches its 10^th anniversary amidst future uncertainty, but reflects on a decade of journalism from dozens of young reporters, many of them studen

ROME – WFP Executive Director David Beasley has told directors of the UN agency to drop a petition they began circulating in support of beleaguered Deputy Director Amir 'Pasha' Abdulla, telling the

 ROME – WFP Deputy Director Amir Abdulla’s extracurricular amorous activities have been an open secret at the agency for years but controversial Director of Investigators (OIGI) Barnardin Assiene c

 ROME– Four World Food Programme women employees have accused Sudanese Deputy Director Amir Abdulla of coercing them into sex while working at the Rome-based UN f

 ROME – An irate wife’s email to fellow members of the World Food Programme book club blew the whistle on Sudanese Deputy Executive Director Amir Abdulla’s amorou

 ROME – World Food Programme Deputy Director Amir Abdulla came under pressure to resign before he is fired Saturday after an external review on sexual harassment

 VENICE - The first memorial reef balls in Europe have been used to commemorate three people including two Americans in an unusually environmentally friendly way in the crystal-clear waters of the

ROME – Dozens of World Food Progamme women staffers say they have been raped or subject to attempted rape or other sexual assault by senior colleagues or bosses while working at the UN agency, many

ROME – FAO Director General Qu Dongyu has relaxed a curb on business class travel by hungercrats at the UN agency, raising hopes among staff that China may increase its contribution to the embattle

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 ROME – Pakistani Ambassador to Italy H.E.

 ROME — After what now looks like the token axeing of the FAO HR director for alleged serial sex harassment, the new Chinese supremo at the UN poverty-busting agency seems to be following in the fo

 ROME -- A conference on modern slavery will be held at Marymount School on Friday Sept. 27. Details can be found at the following link: