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 ROME — Well-placed sources inside the Food and Agriculture Organization report rising speculation that Italian Maurizio Martina, the UN agency's deputy director general, will run for director gene

  ROME -- The India-Middle East-Europe Corridor (IMEC) could increase the risk of conflict with China seeking to counter their influence, a conference at the Euro-Gulf Information Centre (EGIC) in

 DAKAR – Nearly 55 million people in West and Central Africa will struggle to feed themselves in the June-August 2024 lean season, according to the March 2024 Cadre Harmonisé food

  HARARE – Present and former FAO staffers in Zimbabwe have called for an investigation into alleged nepotism under the leadership of Southern Regional Coordinato

 ROME – As many as 20 percent of posts at the Food and Agriculture Organization financed by donors in advance are “permanently vacant” due to recruitment delays,

 ROME — Famine is imminent in the northern part of the Gaza Strip and the entire population of Gaza is facing crisis levels of food insecurity or worse, according to the new Integrated Food Securit

 KINSHASA – Ahead of International Women’s Day, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) chief Cindy McCain issued an appeal to the international community for urgent resources and support to respond to t

 JUBA — Sudan’s war has shattered millions of lives and created the world’s largest displacement crisis.

  ROME – The FAO Director General Qu Dongyu while travelling in Africa boasted to heads of state and government that he has the power “as a Chinese official” to have them removed from office and re

 JUBA – At least 25 million people are struggling with soaring rates of hunger and malnutrition as the crisis in Sudan sends shockwaves around the region, the United Nations World

 ROME – FAO Director General Qu Dongyu is poised to appoint Lebanese dandy Serge Nakouzi as head of the agency’s troubled human resources division after the transfer of former HR director Geert de

 ROME -- The Italy-Africa Summit, which was being held by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s Government Monday and Tuesday in the Italian Senate building, is

 VIENNA – The International Atomic Energy Agency has held a “joint nuclear management school” with China under which 40 young nuclear professionals from 23 countr

  ROME – The embattled World Food Programme Executive Director Cindy McCain has come under fire from senior WFP executives who claim she has not been seen at the

 VIENNA – The ambitious IAEA chief Rafael Grossi’s laudable Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellowship programme aimed at boosting women’s opportunities in nuclear technol

 VIENNA – International Atomic Energy Agency supremo Rafael Grossi has raised accountants’ eyebrows at the purportedly cash-strapped organization by splashing out some 1 million euros on a fleet of

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 ROME – The popularity of World Food Programme Executive Cindy McCain among staff has plummeted as staff accuse the maverick Republican party supporter and person

 VIENNA – Consultants at the International Atomic Energy Agency are incandescent over what they say is the hiring of a Chinese national by the German Director of

 ROME -- Renowned Tunisian-Egyptian actress Hend Sabry has resigned from her role as a goodwill ambassador the World Food Programme amid growing protests by staffers and the Arab world over WFP Exe

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 TEHRAN – An Iranian delegation has embarked on a “transformative study tour in China with FAO support” in a development that is sure to raise Western concern ove