ROME -- World Food Programme Executive Director David Beasley's increasing involvement in peace initiatives in Africa and central Asia has divided senior executives at the UN agency with some clai

 ROME – The current political situation in Iraq post-elections poses a grave threat to the long-term peace and stability in the country due to the continuing power of militias raised to d

 VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis in his Christmas Urbi et Orbi (to the city and the world) message cautioned Saturday that in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic confl

 ROME – In an opening statement to the recent FAO Council, Director General Qu Dongyu pledged “to take FAO’s work out of the castles and bring it to the people in

 LONDON – The British Government has paid rare tribute to the work of beleaguered British lecturers in Italian universities in contributing to relations between the two countries and indicated that

 JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s government has been rocked by a chorus of protest over its decision to drop its former officially endorsed candidate to head the IL

 ROME -- South Korean former foreign minister Kang Kyung-wha has stepped up campaigning to become head of the International Labour Organization against strong riv

 ROME --IFAD President Gilbert Houngbo's controversial bid to head the International Labour Organization has hit a setback after a rival African candidate remains

 ROME – After Zambia’s recent election brought in the new government of President Hakainde Hichilema with a landslide majority, the country is replete with opportun

 ROME -- Desmond O'Grady, the doyen of Anglo-Saxon reporters in the Eternal City,  has died after working as a correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald and oth

 ROME -- IFAD staff's anger over what they see as the lack of trustworthy leadership of the UN agency has extended to the sleepy Executive Board of the troubled p

 ROME – IFAD staff members have lambasted president Gilbert Houngbo, saying that the conflict of interest posed by the former Togolese prime minister’s candidature to become the director general of

ROME – “Obstructionism” by World Food Programme officials using diplomatic immunity to reject summons to give evidence to magistrates is hindering Italian investigators trying to determine responsb

 ROME – The Algerian Ambassador to Italy, HE Ahmed Boutache, was guest of honour at a convivial luncheon in the Foreign Press Association with some of the envoy’s

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 ROME – IFAD President Gilbert Houngbo announced two promotions of staff to vice president, fuelling anger among staff after the Togolese supremo created a bogus

 ROME –  IFAD vice president Dominik Ziller’s alleged penchant for office romance could cost him his chance to take over from Gilbert Houngbo if the UN agency president wins his controversial bid f

 ROME -- As French media speculated IFAD President Gilbert Houngbo is emerging as the favourite to become head of the International Labour Organization, diplomatic sources disclosed the Togolese po

 ROME – The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) appears to be choking off project finance to the FAO, suggesting that relations between the UN agency and the Bide

 ROME -- France has upped the stakes in its efforts to spike the guns of an Australian candidate to run the International Labour Organization as Paris fielded its

  ROME – A team from the NATO Defence College easily defeated the Pakistan Embassy squad in the annual Commonwealth Cricket Club Tournament played at the new pitc

 CAGLIARI, Sardinia -- The Doha Agreement between the Taliban and the United States was a nightmare for many in Afghanistan and a wake-up call to finally visualize the Taliban rule of the country o

 VERONA -- The decision by the European Commission to send a formal notice to Italy for its failure to comply with the rules of the Union regarding the free