ROME – ILO director general elect Gilbert Houngbo is working out his notice as IFAD president by trying to pave the way for a successor from his region while attracting raised eyebrows from diplom

  VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis celebrated Palm Sunday by denouncing the "folly of war" and calling for an Easter truce in Ukraine as a prelude to peace even if it

 ROME -- The FAO Director General Qu Dongyu has 'sent to coventry' the head of the UN agency's troubled human resources department amid staff discontent with stif

  When Joe Biden accused Vladimir Putin of being a war criminal, it may have seemed like a statement of the blindingly obvious.

ROME – Western diplomats to the FAO have been considering if Russia could be expelled from the UN food agencies for its rape of Ukraine though they are hardly encouraged by fruitless efforts in the

 ROME -- The European Union's anti-fraud unit, OLAF, has concluded its investigation into possible conflict of interest and nepotism by former FAO assistant director general, Roberto Ridolfi, and h

 ROME -- The U.N.

 ROME –The Italian Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by Italian Insider’s editor-in-chief John Phillips against his conviction and sentence on charge

 ROME -- Veteran Italian television presenter and science journalist Piero Angela has been honoured by Algeria for his work in his youth as a RAI correspondent co

 ROME – The 32 people who work in the bar and canteen at the headquarters of the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) have had their employment suspended indefinitely while the UN age

 VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis issued another passionate appeal Sunday f

 NEW YORK -- United Nations staff unions "deeply worried" about the UN pension fund are urging the Secretary General, Antonio Guterres,  to drop the outsourcing h

 ROME -- As FAO Director General Qu Dongyu has started campaigning for re-election next year, a circle of Western ambassadors have been meeting to discuss if ther

 ROME -- The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has stopped short of calling Russia's war in Ukraine an invasion or war, referring to the conflict as only

 ROME -- A former FAO employee has won a hard-fought victory and was awarded damages in a lengthy legal battle against the UN agency management after the ILO Administrative Tribunal recognized her

 ROME -- The Italian Supreme Court is scheduled to hear March 29  the appeal lodged in the Court of Cassation against the unfair conviction of Insider editor John

 ROME – African travel expert Michelina Sanquest has been named as a Goodwill ambassador for tourism from Italy to Zambia, the Zambian Embassy in the Eternal City announced.

 ROME – Diplomats accredited to the World Food Programme and sister agency FAO are waiting gripped for the outcome of the "internal selection process" of the WFP Executive Director under way as the