ROME – FAO staffers are gripped by the salacious saga of the agency’s Number 2 boss, Godfrey Magwanzi, who has promoted a Russian speaking female underling who

 ROME -- Concern is growing among donor countries over the decision by the director general of ICCROM, the Rome-based international quango responsible for the tec

 ROME -- FAO Director General Qu Dongyu, evidently frustrated that staff have not translated his strategic framework for the UN agency into reality, has taken to picking on employees at random in t

 ROME – Nicaragua, under the regime led by Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, has withdrawn from the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and o

 ROME -- FAO Evaluation Division chief Clemencia Cosentino has bewildered staff by flouting the rule against directors of the UN agency teleworking from home, reg

 ROME -- African top poverty-buster Godfrey 'crocburger' Magwenzi has climaxed his elevation to being the No.

 ROME – The Italian Insider wishes to state that Mr Osama Owaneh, of Amman, Jordan, has never had any contact with the Italian Insider or any of its journalists an

SAO PAULO - The World Health Organisation (WHO) has called for the immediate restoration of the ceasefire in Gaza following devastating overnight Israeli attacks that reportedly claimed more than 4

 ROME – An FAO poverty-buster insisted on staying at five star hotels in the Jordanian resorts of Aqaba and Petra costing as much as dlrs 230 a night using funds t

 ROME – Government appointed staff at the FAO operation in Jordan regularly bully and intimidate employees including alleged physical assaults while the FAO Repre

 Islamabad -- The death of Adnan Mirza, an Operations Officer at the

 ROME – The Trump administration may achieve an end to the ‘new cold war’ that has divided the world for the past 20 years with Italy playing a major role in cons

 ROME – The United States has served notice on the World Food Programme that it will withdraw funding for gender ideology projects and “harmful” diversity, equity

JERUSALEM/ROME – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Deputy Executive Director Carl Skau appealed today for an increase in international support to boost humanitarian assistance for milli

 ROME – WFP staff were bewildered this week to receive a memo on urgent “corporate efficiency measures” from chief of staff Meghan ‘chopper’ Latcovich rather than

ROME – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is working tirelessly to expand food and nutrition assistance to millions more people across Sudan – aiming to triple the number of people it su

 ROME – As staff at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) were poised to enjoy a day off work to mark the Chinese New Year this week, observers said Wash

ROME – The Italian government has decided not to send Najeem Osama Almasri Habish, the 47-year-old former head of the judicial police of the Tripoli regime, to the International Criminal Court (I.C

ROME – UN World Food Programme convoys crossed into Gaza from the north and south on Sunday as the long-awaited ceasefire came into effect.

 ROME – At the recently concluded FAO COuncil, the UN agency’s cunning director general, evidently acting on orders from his masters in the Chinese Communist Party, engineered a ‘coup d’etat’ with

 WASHINGTON -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., and Rep. Tracey Mann, R-Kan., led their Republican colleagues in sending a bicameral letter to U.S.

 ROME – FAO donors spearheaded by European Union countries have frozen funds for as many as 200 professional positions at the FAO because of disgruntlement with t