Syrian envoy "still barricaded at FAO"
ROME– As the West determines how to punish Syria for using chemical weapons, Syria’s Ambassador to Italy is still on Italian soil despite U.S. protests, diplomatic sources say.
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ROME– As the West determines how to punish Syria for using chemical weapons, Syria’s Ambassador to Italy is still on Italian soil despite U.S. protests, diplomatic sources say.
ROME–FAO Chief José Graziano da Silva is “forcing staff to starve” through job cuts contravening the hunger-fighting agency's mission, it is claimed.
ROME – FAO management is reneging on pledges to redeploy staff whose positions are being abolished, telling them are no funds available to keep them in the troubled UN agency, sources say.
ROME– UN Food and Agriculture Organisation staff face swingeing job cuts by year end as Director General José Graziano da Silva slashes dlrs 37 million from the famine-fighting agency’s budget, FAO
ROME– Michael T Clark, a U.S. political scientist embroiled in a UN nepotism scandal, has joined the growing army of advisers to FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva, FAO sources say.
ROME– Turkmenistan, Sao Tome, Niger and Dominican Republic may deserve FAO honours for meeting UN development goals but all are in hefty arrears in paying dues to the UN agency, FAO sources say.
ROME– FAO chief José Graziano da Silva publicly dismissed work by senior colleagues as “huevadas” (bullshit) while working as head of the UN agency’s Latin American operation, FAO sources disclosed
ROME– Staff at the Food and Agriculture Organisation may stage a walk-out at this month’s conference of the UN agency to protest discrimination against staff association leaders, agency sources say
ROME–Latin American diplomats and the companion of former Italy prime minister, Lamberto Dini's daughter Paola are among new staff in FAO chief Jose Graziano da Silva's office, FAO sources say.
ROME—As the United Nations announces the cost of their humanitarian mission in Syria reaching costs of US$4.4 billion, the World Food Programme has distributed urgent aid to refugee families across Syria in areas where some of the heaviest fighting has taken place in recent weeks.
ROME–The FAO is paying tribute to Cuba, Nicaragua and 14 other nations who halved their hungry populations but despite the progress donors worry about increased bureaucracy at the UN agency, senior
ROME – Saad Alotaibi, considered a Saudi Royal family unofficial emissary at the FAO, has left his job as Assistant Director General for the mideast following the murky death of a Japanese staffer
ROME–FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva wants a sharp spending increase in the 2014-2015 budget -- the agency denies the hike is intended to facilitate his re-election.
KABUL – Border disputes with Pakistan and Iranian meddling in the country’s internal affairs have recently shifted the focus of Afghans' criticism closer to home.
ROME– A self-syled secret agent who claims he helped kidnap Vatican schoolgirl Emanuela Orlandi was convicted for killing in 1983 the son of a Uruguayan official at the UN food agency IFAD, police
ROME– IFAD Director General Kanayo Nwanze has suspended the UN agency’s General Counsel, Rutsel Martha, after adverse labour tribunal rulings cost some dlrs 1 million, IFAD sources say.