Former Attorney General and Justice minister Abubacarr Tambadou has been named as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine. 

The list released Tuesday is a compilation of 100 people from different walks of life who are making an impact on business, art, sport, music and more across the world. Final names were selected by Time editors, with recommendations from the magazine’s international staff and Time 100 alumni.

Mr Tambadou, 47, was praised for his role in taking Myanmar to the International Court of Justice over war crimes against the marginalised Rohingya ethnic group. 

The prosecutor and former attorney general (2017 to 2020) is the current registrar of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, an international court founded by the UN Security Council. 

Nigerian entrepreneur and philanthropist Tony Elumelu and Congolese microbiologist Jean-Jacques Muyembe Tamfum are the other high profiled Africans on the Time 100 list.