Abubacarr Tambadou is a 47-year-old Gambian lawyer and politician. He is the current registrar of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, an international court founded by the UN Security Council. In 2019, Tambadou and his government took on Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s state counselor at the International Court of Justice, the UN’s judicial organ, over alleged crimes against the Rohingya ethnic group. Tomi Adeyemi is a 27-year-old Nigerian-American novelist and writing coach. In 2018 her first book, “Children of Blood and Bone,” spent 90 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. In the same year, it won the Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Debut Novel. Dr. Jean-Jacques Muyembe Tamfum is a Congolese microbiologist. He is currently the director-general of the National Institute for Biomedical Research in the central African country and has devoted the last four decades to researching the deadly virus and implementing its control measures. He is also currently leading the country’s response to Ebola and Covid-19. Dr. Tunji Funsho is a Nigerian cardiologist and chair of Rotary International’s polio eradication program in Nigeria. Through efforts from him and his team, this year marked four years without a case of wild polio in the West African country, qualifying it and the rest of the continent as free from the deadly virus.
SOURCE: CNN