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 ROME – The FAO has apparently rehabilitated former FAO soil officer Ronald Vargas who was fired by the UN agency for alleged sexual harassment, collaborating wit

 ROME -- FAO chief economist Maximo Torero has opened a new chapter in the UN agency’s attempts to silence the Italian Insider by denouncing the newspaper’s chief

 ROME – Three longstanding and respected members of the embattled FAO Evaluation Division have resigned from the UN agency in the past month as the abuse of emplo

 ROME – Staff at the World Food Programme may be about to start a “bring back Beasley” movement at the UN agency after the evident Trump U.S.

 ROME – Employees of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) walked off the job for a symbolic one hour strike Wednesday and staged protests outside the be

  ROME - Some might say FAO Director, Dr QU Dongyu, became slightly side-tracked when he began his closing remarks at the Joint Meeting of the Programme and Finance Committees by talking about hims

 ROME – The wife of a senior officer of the FAO Office of Evaluation, a critical oversight unit of the FAO, is a G-4 officer within the FAO Human Resources divisi

 ROME – The World Food Programme Chief of Staff, Ms Meghan Latcovich, a former U.S: Navy helicopter pilot, is raising many eyebrows at the UN agency’s Rome headquarters since she is mainly working

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 ROME – The FAO evaluation division director has alarmed observers by appointing a friend in Washington as a liason and evaluation officer at sky-high paid P-5 gr

ROME -  The conference about Maritime security and the role of the Euro-Gulf Information Centre (EGIC) was held in Rome at the Egic  headquarters in Rome on wednesday evening.

 ROME – FAO Director General Qu Dongyu has rejected a request by the head of the Evaluation Division for the UN agency to start a new defamation lawsuit against t

 ROME – Beleaguered WFP Executive Director Cindy McCain and her 'chopper pilot' chief of staff sought to boost her popularity with a charm offensive at a big all staff meeting of the UN agency to c

 HARARE – Loans made to Zimbabwe by the FAO to help poor farmers, worth as much as dlrs 8 million, are being syphoned off by corrupt government ministers and trad

 ROME – The World Food Programme said Friday it "inadvertently" shared the payslip information of as many as 126 employees working at WFP headquarters -- includin

  ROME – Senior echelons of the FAO have resumed legal harassment of the Italian Insider, denouncing the newspaper to the Italian judiciary for alleged criminal l

  ROME -- Baroness Nosheena Mobarik has urged world leaders to tackle global issues such as conflict, destruction of land, and environmental disasters, calling for those in power to “take all of hu

 ROME – Over a third of the FAO Evaluation division employees in the Eternal City have sought medical help to cope with the stress of working under bullying direc

  REGGIO CALABRIA -- Search operations for the 66 missing migrants lost 120 miles off the Calabrian coast in the worst s

 ROME – The investigation of IFAD’s communications manager for alleged workplace harassment of staffers in her team has struck a chord with colleagues at sister a

 ROME –- The FAO Human Resources department's Officer in Charge, Serge Nakouzi, was investigated for alleged workplace harassment in 2021 by the UN agency’s respe