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 40th 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.
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 off
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
WASHINGTON – FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva should make a “’public and humble” apology to FAO members over the fiasco appointment of Peruvian former first lady Nadine Heredia to the UN
ROME — The FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva, struggling to re-burnish his badly-tarnished reputation, is trying to renege on his controversial job offer to fo
ROME -- The January conference for the Professional Women’s Association (PWA) was held in the luxurious Grand Hotel Palace Wednesday with a talk f
ROME – The only Asian candidate to become the next head of the International Fund for Agricultural Development, Bambang Brodjonegoro, is a “low value option” who the Indonesian president evidently
ROME -- What if you could carry with you at all times a lightweight, discreet, proven product that could help protect you from a knife attack, a b
WASHINGTON – The Trump administration will appoint an ambassador to the UN food agencies who will “clean house” at the FAO to combat Brazilian Director General José Graziano da Silva’s “sleazy” eff
