ROME – As FAO diplomats try to resume work after the summer break, they continue to watch FAO, as far as they can, to understand the management of Chinese DG Qu Dongyu in his second year in office.

 ROME -- An EU probe into a top FAO executive is the latest in a long string of scandals that have rocked UN agencies in Italy over the past decade including alle

 ROME – Chinese FAO Director General Qu Dongyu has included symbolically three Americans in his 10-person ‘politburo’ senior management team but Western donors ar

 ROME – The return of doughty Mexican hungercrat Gina Casar to the World Food Programme has divided the agency between legions of supporters and detractors as she

ROME – A solemn promise by Antonio Capuano, the lawyer of the Kuwaiti Embassy in Italy, to arrange payment of the longstanding debt to Italian Insider run up for work commissioned by the previous a

SANT’OMERO – The stolen emergency exit door of the Bataclan that was decorated by Banksy, the most famous street artist in the world, symbolically depicting a woman in pain, has been recovered from

ROME – Western diplomats tried to no avail at a Council meeting last week of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to present a uniform position on organic reform of the UN agency introduced

 ROME – The WFP Executive Director David Beasley has curbed the powers of the reputed head of the old guard at the UN agency, Sudanese ‘pasha’ and deputy executiv

 ROME -- A senior World Food Programme executive has poured scorn on staff association president Wagdi Othman's claim of widespread racism at the UN agency, pointing out that a constellation of top

ROME – The World Food Programme staff association (PSA), the official voice of the UN organisation’s staff, have criticised the WFP for not having done a “study on the prevalence of racism, or any

ROME – An additional five Egyptian intelligence agents have been added to the list of suspects for the torture and murder of Cambridge student Giulio Regeni, as another unfruitful meeting between n

 ROME – As delegates prepare for the Food and Agriculture Organization Council meeting next week Western diplomats are divided over the management by the U

TRIPOLI – To protect Italy’s interests and work to ensure the Libyan conflict doesn't escalate as the competing powers of Turkey, Egypt, and Russia all vie for control, the Italian Foreign Minister

 ROME -- The International Fund for Agricultural Development IFAD has defended a decision by President Gilbert Houngbo to recall to the Eternal City employees who

ROME – The Venezuelan President, Nicolás Maduro, has become embroiled in a brewing Italian corruption scandal, with allegations that he sent 3.5 million euros to finance the Italian political party

ROME – The Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Luigi Di Maio, has said that assessments are being made on the agreed sale of two frigates, the ‘Spartaco Schergat’ and the ‘Emilio Bianchi’, to be s

ATHENS – Italian tourists arriving in Greece from the Italian regions of Emilia-Romagna, Lombardy, Piedmont, Veneto, will be subject to swabs and a quarantine of a minimum of seven days, according

ROME – The United States remains “fully engaged” in the UN Food and Agriculture Organization as the largest single contributor despite owing the UN agency as much as dlrs 46 million in arrears, a s

ROME – The China ambassador to Italy, Li Junhua, has said that China respects the US-Italy alliance, and that it should not be an obstacle to the Italy China partnership, and further said that Chin

  ROME -- A surprise decision by the FAO Director General, Qu Dongyu, to reallocate radically six assistant directors' job descriptions and move the once powerful

ROME – In a ceremony to commemorate Florence Nightingale, the 'mother of modern nursing' who emphasised data and hygiene in field hospitals, projections illuminated the facade of the Spallanzani ho