Top UN food agency official ‘fired over Gaza hunger warnings’

LONDON: A former top UN food agency official has said he was fired last week after highlighting Gaza’s hunger crisis, as he launched an appeal against the dismissal, The Guardian reported. The leadership of the Food and Agriculture Organization had refused to renew Benjamin Davis’ contract as chief of its rural transformation and gender equality division because his team had published a brief on hunger in Gaza and held a seminar on the subject last year, the 62-year-old Spanish American dual cit