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ROME– At least 900 staff walked off their jobs at the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation last month in protest at redeployment policies by the agency's new director general, FAO sources said.

KABUL -- In Afghanistan’s northern Takhar province, 120 girls and 3 teachers have been hospitalized after toxic substances were sprayed into the classrooms - only a month after 150 others fell ill

UN World Food Programme (WFP) staff work through gunfire, shells, earthquakes and radiation alerts in the field.

 ROME – As many as 17 staff at the UN World Food Programme (WFP) were dismissed for fraud or embezzlement during a year of disciplinary proceedings, WFP sources say.

ROME – A corrupt FAO employee in Sri Lanka used connections to Tamil Tigers fighters to intimidate bosses and avoid dismissal for bilking as much as dlrs 1.57 million fr

ROME -- In 100 days of office as FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva has impressed staff by his determination to turn around the UN agency but raised questions over an "autocratic" style.

ROME -- Families of WFP staffers "crack at the seams" and their children "can grow up alienated, rootless ... with heavy emotional 'baggage,' a study by the agency finds.

ROME -- A secure supply of whisky, single malt or Jack Daniels, is vital for WFP workers dealing with emergencies around the globe, top executives at the UN agency jest.

ROME -- As many as 24 staff of the UN World Food Programme were dismissed for professional misconduct in 2010 -- charges included harrasment and fraud, theft and gross negligence, says the agency.

ROME -- Incoming Executive Director of the U.N.

ROME -- Bill Gates, speaking at the UN International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Governing Council, has criticised IFAD and other international food aid organisations for "not doing as

ROME -- As the world belatedly turns its attention to the pressing issues of environmental degradation, resource scarcity and climate change, the concept of sustainability takes its rightful place

ROME -- The United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has been ordered to pay hundreds of thousands of euros in damages to a senior executive who was wrongly dismissed w