Fatma Samoura Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/fatma-samoura/ The low down on African affairs Thu, 20 Jun 2019 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Fatma Samoura Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/fatma-samoura/ 32 32 Egypt to keep the lied on demonstrations during Afcon https://jjcornish.com/2019/06/egypt-to-keep-the-lied-on-demonstrations-during-afcon/ Thu, 20 Jun 2019 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2019/06/egypt-to-keep-the-lied-on-demonstrations-during-afcon/ Seeking to make the most of being second choice host of the Africa Cup of Nations that kicks off today, the government of Abdel Fattah El Sisi will keep a tight rein on any opposition bid to protest against the death in detention of the Mohamed Moursi whom he overthrew in a coup six years […]

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]]> Seeking to make the most of being second choice host of the Africa Cup of Nations that kicks off today, the government of Abdel Fattah El Sisi will keep a tight rein on any opposition bid to protest against the death in detention of the Mohamed Moursi whom he overthrew in a coup six years ago.

Nevertheless off-the-field trouble continues to trouble the corruption-prone continental football body.

The international body governing football FIFA will take control of the Confederation of Africa Football following the detention and release of CAF boss Ahmad in France earlier this month.

FIFA Secretary General Fatma Samoura will become the General Delegate for Africa while retaining her FIFA position.

The AFCON competition will go ahead as planned in Egypt which stepped in when security concerns forced the body to pull the plug on the original host Cameroon.

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]]> FIFA’s new secretary general starts work https://jjcornish.com/2016/06/fifas-new-secretary-general-starts-work/ Tue, 21 Jun 2016 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2016/06/fifas-new-secretary-general-starts-work/ The first woman and first non-European to hold the job of FIFA general secretary has officially started work at football’s  scandal-tainted governing body. Senegalese Fatma Samoura says her first order of business is to fill senior positions including chief financial officer and chief compliance officer. ends intro   Fatma  Samoura was named to the job […]

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]]> The first woman and first non-European to hold the job of FIFA general secretary has officially started work at football’s  scandal-tainted governing body.

Senegalese Fatma Samoura says her first order of business is to fill senior positions including chief financial officer and chief compliance officer.

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Fatma  Samoura was named to the job last month, in a surprise move by FIFA president Gianni Infantino, seeking to fix football’s governing body’s reputation since over taking over from the disgraced Sepp Blatter.

Fifty-four-year-old Samoura worked at the United Nations for more than 20 years, mostly  in Africa.

Her two predecessors as general secretary, Jerome Valcke and Markus Kattner, were both sacked over corruption allegations.

Valcke is the target of a criminal investigation in Switzerland, along with Blatter.

Samoura says boosting morale at FIFA is crucial.

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