Ex FAO chief Diouf "under house arrest"
ROME– Former FAO chief Jacques Diouf is being held under house arrest in his native Senegal following a tiff with Senegalese President Macky Sall, diplomatic sources say.
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ROME– Former FAO chief Jacques Diouf is being held under house arrest in his native Senegal following a tiff with Senegalese President Macky Sall, diplomatic sources say.
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Dear Mr Phillips, I just would like to draw your attention to two conflicts of interest that the director of information, Mario Lubetkin, poses, to the general indifference of the FAO leadership:
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