Dr Wasunna is a physician and an infectious disease and tropical medicine specialist from Nairobi, Kenya. She joined the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) in 2003 and is the Director of the DNDi Africa Regional Office.
Dr Wasunna leads DNDi’s activities in Eastern Africa. She is a founding member and former Chair of the Leishmaniasis East Africa Platform (LEAP), which promotes clinical research for Leishmaniasis and capacity building in the region.

Migration with its complexity brings various challenges to tackle not only for politicians, the environment and civil society, but also national economies. However, migration also opens up opportunties. The International Migrants Day reminds and informs about those as well as transsectoral correlations of migration.

Women have made huge strides in the push for equality in all spheres over the last two decades. However, the road to gender equality and justice is still rugged and in many other ways yet to begin. Especially women’s economic independence still faces big obstacles, which is hampering economic progress on the continent.

Für unsere Konferenz „Jobs or Migration? An African Perspective“ am 4. November in Berlin suchen wir Volunteers für das Gästemanagement

In order to better understand the impact of corruption on sustainable development in Africa, GPI spoke to Jeff Kabondo, a renowned anti-corruption activist from Malawi. With more than 15 years’ experience in good governance and anti-corruption work across Africa, he is the Executive Director of Malawi’s National Integrity Platform, the country’s leading civil society organisation combating corruption.

Nadia Murad has long been known as the face and voice of the Yezidi. For three years, she has been advocating for Yezidi justice in international fora and through meetings with world leaders. She constantly calls for international action against ISIS and urged for the crimes against the Yazidi to be officially recognised as genocide. Her Initiative is dedicated to rebuilding communities in crisis, advocating for victims of sexual violence and ultimately engaging for a world free from genocide and crimes against humanity. The Initiative encourages world leaders to act and stresses that “words without action inflict the same harm and suffering as the perpetrators of mass atrocities and sexual violence”.