ROME – The flamboyant Brazilian Ambassador to the FAO, João Carlos de Souza-Gomes, was expected to return to his post in the Eternal City this week despit

GENEVA -- The FAO director general and management are planning to abolish the living allowance for the UN agency's interns, according to the Fair Internship Initiative, an advocacy group based in G

 ROME — Eight months after the respected Algerian reporter Said Chitour was jailed on trumped up charges of ‘espionage,’ the Alge

 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis appealed Sunday for an end to the “inhuman” bombardment by Syrian forces of the rebel enclave of east Ghouta, saying “one cannot fight evil with another evil.”

ROME - The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Sudan signed a financing agreement worth dlrs 47.5 million that aims to improve the country’s resilience to climate change and

ROME – Human rights, the growing power of the Arab world in the Mediterranean and the challenges for future relationships between Europe and the Gulf were the central themes of three talks at the E

 ROME – A senior World Food Programme executive may have sparked a sex harassment probe by allegedly making "homophobic remarks" to gay employees at the agency’s Kabul office, UN sources have said.

ROME – Italy will have fewer troops stationed in Iraq, with Italy’s Ministry of Defence stating that they will be “reducing our military position by about half,” according to Corriere della Sera.

ROME – The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) announced the signing of a new agreement between the UN agency and the government of Saudi Arabia “to help boost agriculture produc

ROME – James Mattis, Head of the Pentagon, will be in Rome Tuesday to attend a meeting of 15 Defence Ministers from the anti-ISIS coalition and to meet with Italian Prime Minister, Paolo Gentiloni,

ROME – Mission Lifeline, the NGO working to save migrants in the Mediterranean, called on the European Union to institute a continent-wide strategy for issuing humanitarian visas on Monday, in a st

ROME - The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) announced that they put together a financing package with the Republic of Tajikistan worth dlrs 39.3 million, in order to “help red

 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis was aware of claims of an alleged cover up of paedophilic abuse in Chile by Bishop Juan Barros as early as 2015, having received a letter from one of the abuse victims,

ROME - The Margutta Home Gallery, an art and design gallery on Rome’s Via Margutta, will present several works from the series Iconics by Rome based artist Claudia Palmira.

 ROME — The ever-smiling IFAD czar Gilbert Houngbo's new restructuring plan unveiled at a "town hall meeting" a week-end ago purportedly aims at achieving "excellence" but it features a “Pol Pot” s

VATICAN CITY – Pro-Kurdish protesters and police scuffled near the CastelSantAngelo Monday, police said, as Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with Pope Francis in an audience, making the first visit of a Tu

ROME – Jihadst extremists draw from only a very narrow range of the Koran and marginalise key concepts such as prayer, fasting and preaching, two top analysts at the Tony Blair Institute for Gl

ROME – Italy’s military spending will grow by a further four percent in 2018 to a total of 25 billion euros, “financing that is ever more heavy and burdensome for the country and the public debt,”

 ROME -- Luiz Loures, an assistant secretary general of the UN, and deputy executive director of programme at UNAids, has been cleared of sexual harassment allegations following a UN investigation,

ROME – Magistrates who prevented Ignacio Lula da Silva attending an FAO conference in Africa last week-end suspected the trip may have heralded an attempt by the former Brazilian president to avoid

 ROME — A senior Food and Agriculture Organization human resources executive “tried to force himself” on a female member of staff and in another episode began groping an employment candidate during

ROME – The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)  claims it is tightening its policy on sexual harassment but critics at the UN agency say the policy is “going backwards” by removing clear deadli

ROME – Apparently a typical former British Army officer, the senior WFP official at the heart of a mushrooming sexual harassment probe became a member of the UN committee setting up rules on sex ab