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Coercion won't lead to peace, Taiwanese president tells Pope Leo XIV
TAIPEI -- Coercion of Taiwan by Beijing "could never bring about peace," Taiwanese President Lai Ching-Te has told Pope Leo XIV amid rising speculation the Ameri
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Letter to the editor: FAO appointment of former Chinese official as new chief on One Health
At World Bank, humourless president and IT 'Godmother' axe thousands of consultants
ROME – The humourless World Bank President, Ajay Banga, is axeing thousands of consultants who make up as much as 25 percent of the poverty busting agency's workf
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Comment: America First is not America absent. Why Washington should rejoin the World Health Organisation
GENEVA -- One year after the United States announced its withdrawal from the World Health Organization, a former WHO Headquarters Staff Association President refl
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Questions over qualifications of UNIDO DG's top aide
Italian Insider received the foillowing information from Whistleblower Team Suisse regarding alleged corruption at UNIDO:
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Exclusive: IAEA chief 'kicks out' French nuclear inspector to blackmail Paris to back his UNSG bid
VIENNA – IAEA chief Rafael Grossi has announced he is firing one of the top French nuclear inspectors whom he previously qualified as expert after the Iranian au
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Popular FAO veteran Bill Supple dies at age 85
ROME – William Supple, an Irish former senior accounts executive at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) with a colourful sense of humour and a gift fo
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FAO czar Qu Dongyu creates five new ADGs as 177 field workers axed
ROME – FAO director general Qu Dongyu has ushered in the new year in true Chinese Communist style by promulgating five new dubious appointments to assistant dir
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As Meloni hails UNESCO gong for Italian cuisine, 5 million Italians rely on food hand-outs
MILAN -- Italian cuisine has been officially recognised on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, a milestone hailed by mi
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European Ombudsman opens inquiry into European Commission 'cover-up' over Italy swindling foreign lecturers
BRUSSELS – The European Ombudsman, Teresa Anjinho, has opened an inquiry into a complaint by David Petrie, the head of the association of foreign university lecturers in Italy, over the Commission
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Former U.S. diplomat Hunter's FAO sinecure fuels allegations of political patronage by Chinese DG
ROME -- Concerns about political favoritism have resurfaced at the UN F
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Murky FAO manouvres in African appointments bewilder stakeholders
ROME – Byzantine efforts by the wily FAO Human Resources director Serge Nakouzi eveidnelty designed to keep a West African poverty-buster in a series of high pai
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FAO Ombudsman's report on 'systemic failings' suppressed by Chinese director general
ROME – The latest report of the Ombudsman at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, due to be published in July, still has not been released, evidently becaus
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Confidence in ICCROM director general plunges after assembly fiasco
ROME – Cultural quango ICCROM’s General Assembly this month rejected budget proposals by beleaguered Director General Aruna Gujral and exposed a collapse of confidence in her leadership — through
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WFP legal eagle’s nepotistic secondment raises FAO staff hackles
ROME – FAO watchers have been whiling away the long winter evenings by following the nepotistic fortunes of Filippo P
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North African staff at WFP Haiti fired'because not black enough'
ROME – World Food Programme employees from Arab countries working in the WFP Haiti country office were replaced with black African staffers evidently because “th
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FAO whitewashes complaints over 'corrupt' Saudi hiring processes
ROME – The FAO office in Saudi Arabia invites candidates to apply for professional posts in the sand-swept Kingdom and puts highly qualified applicants through n
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UN probe into Haiti country director allegedly running 'personal kingdom'
ROME – UN investigators from New York have opened a probe into management of its staff in Haiti where the Kenyan country director, Wanja Kaaria, allegedly hired
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WFP Haiti croneyism underlines power of 'feminist African mafia' inside UN
ROME – Despite budget cuts by the Trump administration, many WFP staffers are delighted at the US president’s stand against DEI and what they see as the hope it
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Italy soft target for Russian hybrid warfare
ROME — An estate agent and an insurance broker from Monza make for an
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ICCROM donor countries vote to modify budget amid dissatisfaction with embattled director general
ROME – ROME – ICCROM donor nations stopped short Friday of firing the cultural quango’s beleaguered director general, A
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Amid ageist firings, WFP union and staff association turn blind eye
ROME – WFP’s labor union and staff association representatives are doing nothing to prevent the mass axeing of staff and consultants in the UN agency's Communica
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Bloodletting in WFP Communications division raises questions over abuse of authority
ROME – WFP’s chief of staff Meghan Latcovich and director of communications Michele Quintaglie have axed as many as half of the UN agency’s employees and consult
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FAO HR back to 1960s with doorstickers and hourly timesheets
ROME -- Staff in the Human Resources Division arrived at work this week to find an unexpected new ritual awaiting them: a daily dawn patrol by the bearded HR Dir
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