Rome—The Italian businessman held in a central African prison for two and a half years has described his ordeal and denounced the

 ROME - Stakhanovite FAO Director General

ROME - The FAO Association of Professionals (AP in FAO) has urged Director General José Graziano da Silva to rescind the 'punitive' posting of a former general secretary of the staff association to

 NEW YORK – The attempt to stifle whistleblower Anders Kompass’ exposure of sexual abuse by UN peacekeepers in Africa shows that s

ROME - Tension between diplomats in Rome representing the rival governments of Libya has climaxed with the stabbing in the street of one embassy staffer by an embassy security goon, police sources

ROME– FAO Director General Jose Graziano da Silva, evidently seeking to widen his power base to include Chancellor Angela Merkel's government, has appointed German diplomat Christoph Martin Frick t

Rome -- Laura Boldrini, the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, opened on Thursday the photo exhibition "

Rome – Irate FAO professional staff staged a walk-out protest Thursday in solidarity with general service staff who were on strike for a fourth day against "autocratic" management at the UN agency

ROME – The Saudia Arabian Ambassador to Italy, H.E. Dott. Rayed Khalid A.

 ROME – General service staff at the FAO have voted for three days of strike action starting Monday to protest what they call “the autocratic approach” of the UN agency’s management and “lack of re

ROME – FAO chief "hatchet man" Denis Aitken, stepping up his attack on union rights, ordered Friday systematic monitoring of staff taking part in demonstrations and strikes “so that the appropriate

Rome – Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Cardinal O’Brien, the former Archbishop for St Andrews and Edinburgh.