Huawei Ethiopia hosts its first regional job fair in Hawassa and Haromaya cities on June 21 and 22 respectively. Mind Solutions PLC (IMS), Ethiojobs.net, and Dereja.com, as well as Hawassa and Haromaya Universities, are collaborating on the job fair.
Huawei Ethiopia has organized a number of job fairs to promote opportunities to graduate students. For example, on May 9 and 10, 2022, the company held its second annual hand shaking forum in the Capital in collaboration with Addis Ababa University.
In addition, the company is holding its first-ever regional job fairs in Hawassa and Haromaya, with the goal of providing job opportunities to local residents. Huawei is encouraging new graduates from all over Ethiopia to apply internships and jobs at the company. It also offers a specific internship program that allows fresh graduates to participate in a three-month internship at its Ethiopian headquarters to indorse access and recruitment opportunities. This year’s goal is to provide internship opportunities for more than 300 interns, and more than 90% of that goal has already been met.
Huawei’s first regional job fair provides recruitment opportunities
Ethiopia- Norway collaboration on health and higher education
The annual conference on Ethiopia-Norway collaboration in Health and Higher Education for Development that aims to support and celebrate ongoing partnership and collaborations within health and higher education and was held in Addis Ababa.
Attended by nearly 150 delegates, the 5th annual Conference hosted by the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Addis Ababa with the theme “Harnessing Strategies during and after a Pandemic; implications, and opportunities for Partnerships”, was focused on the key areas of Ethics in Public Health Care, Gender in public health, Trauma Care, Non-Communicable Diseases, and Communicable Diseases.
The event also celebrates several decades of Ethiopian-Norwegian partnership in health and higher education while also creating a medium for key stakeholders and partners for exchange and learning.
Successful conferences in the past have proven the importance of the organization of a regular meeting platform for interaction and experience sharing between stakeholders. This is where new areas of cooperation, synergies, and efficiencies are established.
In her opening remark Merete Lundemo, Ambassador of Norway to Ethiopia, while expressing the commitment of her government to its partnership with Ethiopia in the health and higher education sectors stated that “the Conference contributes to the harnessing of the ongoing partnerships by providing a platform for networking and exchange.
Ethiopian Lidya Tafesse selected for Women’s Afcon 2022
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has selected four referees from the CECAFA region to officiate during TotalEnergies Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) Morocco 2022.
Twelve teams will tussle it out in the competition between July2-23rd in Rabat and Casablanca.
Lidya Tafesse Abebe (Ethiopia), who is also among the female referees selected to officiate at the FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar is among those selected for the WAFCON 2022. The others are; Rwanda’s Salima Mukansanga, Shamira Nabadda (Uganda) and Suavis Iratunga (Burundi).
The list comprises 16 referees, 16 assistant referees and eight Video Assistant Referees (VAR) from 24 countries.
CAF says the process of picking the match officials for the WAFCON 2022 started a few years ago with 226 women match officials that were evaluated over this period.
Uganda Crested Cranes and Burundi are the two teams from the CECAFA region that qualified to play in the WAFCON 2022.
It is recalled that Lidya is the first African female referee to officiate a senior men’s match at the continent level (CHAN). She was the only woman in the continent of 19 center referees who enforced the laws of the game in the 2020 African Nations Championship in Cameroon, Lidiya has also officiated the FIFA Women’s World Cup and the Africa Women Cup of Nations in the past.
Group A: Morocco, Burkina Faso, Uganda, Senegal
Group B: Cameroon, Zambia, Tunisia, Togo
Group C: Nigeria, South Africa, Burundi, Botswana
