ROME – The International Fund for Agriculture and Development (IFAD) President, Gilbert Houngbo, is asking the UN agency's board to leave the International Labour Organization Administrative Tribu

 NEW YORK – Women attending a UN international civil servants conference complained to organisers Wednesday over the presence of FAO Human Resources Director Fernando Servan who has been dubbed a '

ROME — Cameroon has withdrawn its candidate to be the next FAO Director General following pressure from France and China, narrowing the contest to candidates from Georgia and India as well as the F

ROME — A judge at the Rome Tribunal has ordered an investigating magistrate to place Italian Insider ’s chief editor under a new investigation for alleged ‘clandestine publication’ after a lawyer f

BEIRA – The United Nations World Food Programme has stepped up its food distributions in and around Beira following the devastation caused by Cyclone Idai, the worst natural disaster to have struck

 VALLETTA, Malta -- Spearheaded by the venerable Times of Malta, the English-language press remains effectively the last bastion of democracy in this troubled Mediterranean island following the gra

 VALLETA, Malta -- Supporters of Daphne Caruana Galizia last week-end staged protests for a 17th month demanding Malta hold a public inquiry into the murky murder of the investigative journalist.

 ROME -- The World Food Programme said Tuesday that is staff may refuse to fly on an airline or type of aircraft allocated to them for official travel.

ROME - The South African government have renewed their commitment to a partnership with the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) that aims to tackle scientific and

ROME – As many as eight employees from the Rome-based UN food agencies WFP and FAO were among the 157 people killed Sunday when an Ethiopian Airlines jetliner crashed soon after take off from Addis

 ROME -- FIve candidates from Cameroon, China, France, Georgia and India have thrown their hats officially in the ring for the election of the new Director General of the FAO in June, the UN agency

ROME — Asia, Africa and Europe evidently have fielded candidates to become the FAO new director general though the secretive UN agency stopped short of disclosing the names of those running in the

 ROME – Foreign investors in the African Development Bank (AFDB) spearheaded by Italy increasingly are concerned by the flamboyant management style of its

ROME – British Member of European Parliament (MEP) Jude Kirton-Darling backed the Association of Foreign Lecturers in Italy’s (ALLSI) call to European Commissioner of Justice Věra Jourová for the C

ROME – Three veteran journalists, an American, a Spaniard and a Turk, are battling to become the new president of the Foreign Press Association grouping hundreds of foreign correspondents based in

ROME – Fun-loving FAO deputy chef de cabinet Rakesh Muthoo is tipped to become the new Director of FAO Conference Services imminently, in time to head the team that will organize the voting procedu

 FLORENCE -- The German government has acknowledged that a painting looted by Nazi soldiers during the Second World War does indeed belong to the Uffizi Galleries in Florence.

ROME - Women in Finance returns once again for its second edition, with the awards ceremony set to take place on March 7 at the Borsa Italiana headquarters in Milan, Corriere della Sera reports.

ROME – An Italian judge on Tuesday adjourned to Jan.

 VATICAN CITY -- The American head of the Vatican press office, Greg Burke, has resigned together with his deputy, Paloma Garcia Ovejero, the Vatican announced Monday, as the firece infighting betw

ROME – Brazilian FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva, preparing to step down in 2019, secretly has appointed his Uruguayan chef de cabinet Mario Lubetkin to the position of Assistant Direct

 ROME -- Silvia Romano, the 23 year-old volunteer abducted by gunmen in Kenya last November, is alive and is in Kenya, says Noah Mwivanda, Kenyan Coast Regional P