ROME – Newly appointed WFP Executive Director David Beasley has engaged with his staff from day one in the job by sending staff a letter outlining his efforts to defend U.S.
FLORENCE- Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall continued their ongoing visit to Italy by showing their support for the Slow Food movement in Florence on Monday.
AMATRICE — Britain's Prince Charles visited the earthquake ravaged town of Amatrice north of Rome Sunday at the climax of his tour of Italy.
ROME – As Kanayo Nwanze cleared his desk at IFAD this week, questions have been raised over the award of the dlrs 100,000 Africa Food Prize to the head of the UN agency by the African Green Revolut
ROME -- With overbearing IFAD President Kanayo Nwanze ending his second and final term at the UN agency Friday, staff were counting the hours to the end of his reign of terror with many planning t
ROME – FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva announced the appointment of Trump appointee David Beasley as the new Executive Director of the World F
ROME – The World Food Programme has interviewed six purported candidates to be Executive Director of the UN agency in an elaborate charade designed to reassure members that the choice of Trump admi
ROME -- The British Embassy has held a round table discussion entitled 'Women in the Workplace: Progress and Opportunities', to mark International Women’s Day, and the appointment of the UK’s spec
ROME- In the latest letter of request sent to the Egyptian judicial authorities by their Italian counterparts, it has been revealed that 10 high-ranking military officials are thought to be involv
ROME – The FAO in a bizarre move has appointed as its Inspector General responsible for protecting whistleblowers Thierry Rajaobelina who as director of internal oversight at WIPO was responsible f
ROME -- As if the UN Pension Fund’s own well-documented failings were not enough, the FAO has botched its own Staff Pension Comm
ROME -- When top war photographer Nick Cornish received an impossible assignment from the Sunday Times during the Libyan civil war he resolved three things — to take the pictures, to get out of Lib
ROME – In what observers see as a rare piece of good news at the FAO, a well respected expert, Julio Berdegue, a Mexican who has worked and lived in Chile for some time, has been appointed the UN a
ROME – FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva has asked the governments of Bolivia, Chile and Ecuador to allow former Peruvian first lady Nadine Heredia to work at FAO offices in their countri
LONDON -- As UK Prime Minister Theresa May faces pressure to protect the rights of EU nationals working in Britain, the UK Minister for Europe Sir Alan Duncan says Britain will intensify calls for
ROME – British correspondent and author Philip Willan has been elected President of the Foreign Press Club in Rome marking the first time in dec
ROME – Republican politician David Beasley’ nomination to be the Executive Director of the World Food Programme may usher in a new organizational culture at the UN food agencies that for too long h
ROME – As disclosed first by the Italian Insider, United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley has nominated a fellow former South Carolina governor – David Beasley – to head the World Food Programme.
ROME-- The King of television casting and television productions, Nando Moscariello, held a lavish party in celebration of his 40th birthday.
ROME — The Republican politician chosen by Washington to be the next WFP Executive Director may receive a warm welcome from Pope Francis for his pro-life views though he
ROME – As Ertharin Cousin presided over a swan song meeting of the World Food Programme leadership Monday, observers said the Trump administration may seek to cut funding to the UN agency because S
