ROME – A staffer at a United Nations food agency used an alias to cover his tracks when arranging liaisons with under age call girls in the Eternal City, judicial sources say.
ROME– Former FAO chief Jacques Diouf is being held under house arrest in his native Senegal following a tiff with Senegalese President Macky Sall, diplomatic sources say.
ROME – Chilean Samuel Varas, an associate of FAO DG Jose da Silva Graziano, has been hired as interim IT chief operating officer at the agency, bypassing normal UN procedures, FAO sources say.
ROME -- IFAD has vowed to cooperate with authorities investigating alleged involvement by United Nations Rome staff in a "baby call girl" racket rocking Italy's establishment.
ROME–Inter Press Service news agency (IPS) will be privatised and sold to former Argentine former Interior Minister Jose Luis Manzano under plans by former DG Mario Lubetkin, IPS sources say.
ROME --Senior “functionaries” of the FAO and IFAD were among clients of the under age prostitution racket used by Alessandra Mussolini’s husband in Rome, police sources said Monday.
ROME—Three FAO executives have denounced Italian Insider to the Italian judiciary for alleged defamation in an evident attempt to prevent coverage of dubious activities at the UN agency.
Dear Mr Phillips, I just would like to draw your attention to two conflicts of interest that the director of information, Mario Lubetkin, poses, to the general indifference of the FAO leadership:
ROME– Demoralised Hungarian staff at FAO’s Budapest office feel they are “in a dictatorship” and one woman staffer tried to commit suicide by jumping from the UN agency’s building, FAO sources say.
ROME- Syria has long used inertia and stalling to their intended effect, and in the case of handing over its chemical weapons the regime seems to be continuing successfully in the same mold.
ROME– United Nations anti-corruption investigators have opened an inquiry into allegedly blatant job rigging by the “Latin Mafia” at the Food and Agriculture Organisation, UN sources say.
ROME—As Mario Lubetkin took over FAO’s spin operation, ex IPS colleagues poured scorn on the "hyped" biography the UN agency issued to justify the dlrs 25,000 a month hire of the unctuous Uruguayan
ROME -Yohannes Mengesha, a grandson of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, has joined the constellation of high-paid "special advisors" to FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva, FAO sources say
ROME--The FAO professional association head, Wolfgang Prante, sought compensation of dlrs 50,000 from the agency for sending a slur against him by email to thousands of staff, FAO sources have clai
ROME – FAO's Brazilian management has offered one axed U.S. executive the poisoned chalice of “exile” in Afghanistan as a wild witch hunt to find a whistleblower in the UN agency continued.
ROME –FAO management issued another burst of job cuts on New Year`s Eve, despite pledges by “DG” Jose Graziano da Silva that his purge of the UN agency was over, FAO sources say.
Dear Mr Philips, your allusion to a major fraudule
ROME–Inter Press Service’s quest for a new “director general” succeeding Mario Lubetkin at the radical organ raises questions over autocratic management under failed politician Giovanni Spinelli, m
