FIFA names U.N. humanitarian expert Samoura as secretary general

By Brian Homewood MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Senegal's Fatma Samba Diouf Samoura, a United Nations veteran, became the first woman to be named as secretary general of football's world governing body FIFA on Friday. The 52-year-old, currently the U.N. Development Programme Resident Representative in Nigeria, will be responsible for the day-to-day running of FIFA which has been battered by corruption scandals over the past few years. Samoura's appointment as effectively FIFA's second most powerful of