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FAO town hall meeting leaves staff sceptical over 'reforms'
ROME -- Jaded FAO staff struggling to work from home without human contact with their colleagues were not overly impressed by a town hall meeting presided over b
EU Commission 'extra-budgetary' funding for FAO challenged
ROME -- EU countries are divided and evidently increasingly at odds with the EU Commission in Brussels over extra-budget financing for FAO activities including relief of emergencies, diplomatic so
Suspects arrested for murder of Italian diplomat in Congo
GOMA - Several people have been arrested in the Congo for the murder on Feb.
EU and IFAD to support Ethiopian rural jobs and livelihoods in the face of pandemic
WFP ramps up support to Yemen's areas of famine
Dominican envoy tipped for FAO Council Independent Chairman
ROME – Dominic Republic Ambassador Mario Arvelo Caamano is the favourite in the race with two EU candidates (Netherlands and Hungary) for the influential post of
Half of Central African Republic in food insecurity emergency
WFP provides support for families caught in Gaza violence
IFAD support safeguards small scale producers in South Sudan
Insider appeal against FAO criminal libel conviction set for June 4
UN and government urge action on Madagascar famine
IFAD works to improve food security for Tanzanian farmers
Cross-dressing FAO executive expelled from Maghreb
ALGIERS – An FAO Representative has left his post in a north African capital after the UN agency executive was found by local police wearing women’s clothing dur
$17 billion pledged as African countries commit to double agricultural productivity
Much married FAO executive puzzles African officials
KHARTOUM – A fun-loving FAO representative in one of the largest countries in Africa has as many as three wives but surprised staff by embarking on a further rom
Southern Madagascar on brink of famine
Conflict in Mozambique pushes thousands into hunger
WFP steps up work fighting rising hunger in Myanmar
WFP to provide school meals in Venezuela
UN security officer issues 'death threat' to Italian Insider'
ROME – A UN security officer working for FAO has defended his Italian boss against charges of cronyism and issued a thinly-veiled death threat against Italian Insider, saying on Twitter that an ar
Diplomats up in arms over besieged FAO 'Wuhan on Tiber'
ROME – Western diplomats are outraged that FAO DG Qu Dongyu has turned the UN agency, as foreign envoys see it, into a small-scale “Wuhan on the Tiber” using Covid to continue to prohibit diplomat
Building resilient communities top priority for WFP
Cindy McCain, Gardner tipped for Rome embassy posts
ROME -- The widow of Senator John McCain, from Arizona, is under consideration for appointment by the Biden administration as US Ambassador to the FAO and WFP, d