ROME – The arrival in Beijing of American educated Honduran national Carlos Watson as the new FAO Representative in China has reinforced fears among Western diplomats that FAO Director General Qu

 ROME – The head of security at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Piergiorgio Trentinaglia, has blocked the UN agency’s 52 security guards from futu

 ROME – The Italian Ambassador assassinated in the Congo while, riding in a WFP convoy had asked the Italian Foreign Ministry in Rome for more protection but the

  ROME – Acute hunger is set to soar in over 20 countries in the coming months without urgent and scaled-up assistance, warn the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Food Programm

 ROME – The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has said that it ‘summarily dismissed’ a senior manager who was found guilty of sexual harassment as well as of obstructing an investigation whil

  NAYPYITAW – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today warned of rising food and fuel prices as the current political unrest in Myanmar starts to impac

 ROME – Amid widespread bloodletting at the FAO, as Chinese director general Qu Dongyu ruthlessly consolidates his position, the future of Republican-backed Deputy Director General Beth Bechdol evi

 ROME -- Three FAO assistant director generals,Hiroto Mitsugi from Japan, Bukar Tijani from Nigeria and glamorous Ms Dilek Macit from Turkey have been forced to resign from their lucrative sinecure

  ROME – Spanish FAO executive Rodrigo de la Puerta, who three years ago was banished to the UN agency's sleepy Brussels office, has made a remarkable comeback as director of a recently created Log

 ROME – The Mauritanian Food and Agriculture Organization Assistant Director General, Ahmed ould Abdelassam, brought in as a safe pair of hands to run the 32 countries in the Near East operation of

  TRAPANI - Four migrant rights defenders from the 'Iuventa' search and rescue ship have been charged by prosecutors in Sicily for "aiding and abetting illegal immigration to Italy".   

  ROME -- Two respected senior women in the top team at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)  from Holland and Norway resigned suddenly this week after challenging the “top he

  SANA'A - The Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme issued an urgent plea for peace in Yemen and called for funding to help the most vulnerable hungr

  ROME - Empowering women and girls is crucial to ensure sustainable food security in the aftermath of COVID-19, say UN food agency heads ahead of International W

  ROME – As part of a project organized by the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), 24 Italian universities on Wednesday opened the application call for refugees living in Ethiopia to complete a master’s deg

  AGRIGENTO - After news was released of yet another 41 migrants missing in the Mediterranean, UNHCR (the UN migration agency) and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) on Wednesday ca

  ROME – The COVID-19 pandemic risks reversing a decade of hard-won gains in global efforts to provide nutritious food to the world’s most vulnerable children through a free daily meal in school, t

  ROME - Italy demanded Wednesday an official investigation to be carried out by the UN and the World Food Programme into the ambush and murder of the Italian ambassador to the Congo and his Carabi

  GOMA - The Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), the rebel group thought to be responsible for the killing of the Italian ambassador Luca Attanasio, have released a statement “de

  GOMA – The Italian ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Luca Attanasio, was shot and killed on Monday in an attack on a World Food Programme convoy in the Virunga National Park, th

  ROME – The United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) has announced an urgent request for 204 million dollars if it is to continue existing operations beyond February. The UNHAS is a critica

  ROME - Italy has pledged 84 millions euros in the fight to guarantee access to food for those in the poorest rural areas, Luigi Di Maio, Italian Foreign Affairs

CAIRO –  A record 12.4 million Syrians, nearly 60 percent of the population, are now food insecure, according to alarming new national data from the UN World Food Programme (WFP).