ROME – A video of a former dedicated woman employee of the World Food Programme who worked for the UN agency for 17 years in senior positions in Africa has gone
ROME - The U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, was in Rome on Monday for the Plenary Ministerial meeting of the Global Coalition to Defeat Daesh, co-chaired this year by the U.S. and Italy.
ROME -- Philippines Ambassador to Italy and the FAO Domingo Nolasco and senior executives of the WFP, FAO, IFAD and UNESCO are among UN agency executives and diplomats who have failed to upgrade t
ROME -- The FAO Conference has elected Ambassador Hans Hoogeveen, the Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations in Rome,
ROME - On Sunday June 6, in the evocative setting of the Antico Caffè Greco, for centuries a point of reference for cu
ROME – Algerian journalist Mourad Rouighi and his Spanish and Turkish colleagues Ana Quiles and Dundar Kesapli have received coveted awards for their professiona
ROME - The Italian Foreign Minister, Luigi Di Maio, has summoned the UAE’s Ambassador in Italy, Omar Al Shamsi, to the Farnesina after a plane full of Italian journalists blocked from flying over
HERAT - Several Afghan civilians who worked in various functions for the Italian, British and American armed forces during conflict in their country have launched an urgent appeal for help gettin
ROME – An Italian appeal court on Friday rejected an appeal by Italian Insider’s chief editor against his lower court conviction on charges of criminally "tarnish
ANKARA - Turkey's determination to start a fresh dialogue with Washington was revealed at diplomatic talks between U.S.
ROME -- Western diplomats accredited to the FAO have been mulling the relevance to the UN poverty-busting agency of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedne
ALGIERS - The clampdown and arrests of demonstrators and civil society activists taking part in the Hirak, Algeria's pro-democracy movement, are on the rise again in the weeks before the 12 June
BUCHAREST -- We are in a period of relative peace and a ceasefire armistice, fighting and destruction in the Middle East as agreed by Israel and the Palestinian
ROME -- Jaded FAO staff struggling to work from home without human contact with their colleagues were not overly impressed by a town hall meeting presided over b
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
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
ROME - The British Ambassador to Italy, Jill Morris, has pledged that “there will be no more cases of this kind,” in r
CUETA - According to many analysts, the sudden influx of about 8,000 migrants in the past 48 hours in the small Spanish enclave of Ceuta, was a message from Mor
TBILISI – Georgia is celebrating the 700th anniversary of the birth of Dante Alighieri with a constellation
ROME - In light of the numerous reported cases of Italian and European citizens being detained and deported by the UK’s border force, Benedetto Della Vedova, Undersecretary of State for Foreign A
ROME - With the war between Azerbaijan and Armenia over, there is a need to transform the “after” into an opportunity.
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
