ROME – In what observers see as a rare piece of good news at the FAO, a well respected expert, Julio Berdegue, a Mexican who has worked and lived in Chile for some time, has been appointed the UN a

ROME – FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva has asked the governments of Bolivia, Chile and Ecuador to allow former Peruvian first lady Nadine Heredia to work at FAO offices in their countri

 LONDON -- As UK Prime Minister Theresa May faces pressure to protect the rights of EU nationals working in Britain, the UK Minister for Europe Sir Alan Duncan says Britain will intensify calls for

 ROME – British correspondent and author Philip Willan has been elected President of the Foreign Press Club in Rome marking the first time in dec

ROME — As the Trump administration mulls U.S.

ROME – Republican politician David Beasley’ nomination to be the Executive Director of the World Food Programme may usher in a new organizational culture at the UN food agencies that for too long h

ROME – As disclosed first by the Italian Insider, United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley has nominated a fellow former South Carolina governor – David Beasley – to head the World Food Programme. 

 ROME-- The King of television casting and television productions, Nando Moscariello, held a lavish party in celebration of his 40^th birthday.

ROME — The Republican politician chosen by Washington to be the next WFP Executive Director may receive a warm welcome from Pope Francis for his pro-life views though he

ROME – As Ertharin Cousin presided over a swan song meeting of the World Food Programme leadership Monday, observers said the Trump administration may seek to cut funding to the UN agency because S

 ROME – The Brazilian engineer replacing Nadine Heredia at the FAO Geneva liason office, Celso Mendes de Carvalho, was best known at the UN agency for his romantic liason with Paola Dini, the daugh

LIMA -- The FAO has dismissed former Peruvian first lady Nadine Heredia and replaced her with a Brazilian engineer as head of the UN agency’s Geneva office, Peruvian media reported Saturday.

 SAN MARINO – British Ambassador to Italy, Jill Morris, CMG, paid homage to the fallen Gurkha cadets of Sept.

 WASHINGTON -- Former South Carolina Governor David M.

ROME -- David M.

CAIRO — The FAO “clandestine” office in Riyadh occupies a floor at the Saudi ministry of Agriculture and in Kafkaesque fashion is known only as “the Unit” to officials f

ROME – Genial French boffin Laurent Thomas will be named Deputy Director General for climate change at the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation in a move that embattled Director General José Grazia

 WASHINGTON – Republican House Foreign Affairs subcommittee Chairman Chris Smith lambasted the FAO Thursday for seeking "to silence truthtellers" inside the UN agency and slammed Director General J

CAIRO – Two managers from the FAO’s graft-ravaged Saudi Arabian operation have been fired belatedly after the UN agency was forced to pay compensation to an Egyptian agronomist and whistleblower wh

 LONDON -- "Italy is committed to solving the problem and is working on it,"  Deputy Head of Mission in the Italian Embassy in London, Vincenzo Cel

ROME — Dr Maria Eugenia Casar Pérez, Mexico’s ambitious candidate to be president of IFAD, raised eyebrows in New York when she pushed for the U.N.

ROME – World Food Programme human resources czarina Prerana Issar is moving sideways to a new role as head of Partnerships as part of fin de régime changes that the outgoing Execut

 ROME -- The Australian Ambassador to Italy, H.E.

 LIMA -- The Peruvian parliament's President of the Commission of Control, Héctor Becerril, who is investigating ex-First Lady of Peru Nadine Hered