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 ROME – Staffers from the embattled World Food Programme shed few tears on WFP facebook pages and other social media over the news that Executive Director Cindy Mc

 ROME--Maurizio Martina, former Italian Minister of Agriculture, is Italy’s pick to lead the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

 ROME -- Oh, stop the presses! Italy has finally managed to snag UNESCO recognition for its cuisine.

 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

 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

 GENEVA -- One year after the United States announced its withdrawal from the World Health Organization, a former WHO Headquarters Staff Association President refl

 Italian Insider received the foillowing information from Whistleblower Team Suisse regarding alleged corruption at UNIDO: 

 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

 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

 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

 MILAN -- Italian cuisine has been officially recognised on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, a milestone hailed by mi

 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

  ROME -- Concerns about political favoritism have resurfaced at the UN F

 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

 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

 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

   ROME – FAO watchers have been whiling away the long winter evenings by following the nepotistic fortunes of Filippo P