A hunt for a big name head coach that could take over the vacant hot seat at Sebeta ketema is underway. Eight coaches who had been wandering around more than six clubs including Tsegaye K/Mariam, Kifle Boltena and Paulos Getachew are the frontrunners while long serving assistant to a number of local and foreign Coaches Zerihun Shengeta is the new face among the rank.
In search of replacing popular Coach Wubetu Abate who recently left the club to take over at the national team, Sebeta received a cocktail of applications from which selecting the right Coach might be difficult.
More than half a dozen clubs including Harrar Birra, Ethiopia Bunna and Ethiopia NegedBank, Tsegaye K/Mariam who left Hossana after a short spell last year are among the heavy weights to battle for the place.
Former Adama Ketema Addise Kassa, former Sehul-Shere coach Samson Ayele, former national Youth team Coach Atnafu Abate appears to have a far chance in the race. While the heavy weights have a long listed travel history the above three could boast only a few sides under their jurisdiction.
Having vast experience as assistant with many coaches, the former national team and St George hard working defender Zerihun Shengeta is an outsider but with a good chance for his freshness from the chronic merry-go round Coaches transfer saga.
Sebeta to choose from a cocktail of coaches
Biniyam Negash
Name: Biniyam Negash
Education: Diploma
Company name: Miku Home and Office Furniture
Title: Founder
Founded in: 2017
What it does: Manufacture different kinds of furniture
HQ: Addis Ababa
Number of employees: 4
Startup Capital: 5,000 birr
Current capital: 50,000 birr
Reasons for starting the business: Passion for designing
Biggest perk of ownership: Team work
Biggest strength: We work tirelessly to improve marketing and productivity
Biggest challenging: Capital and market instability
Plan: Building a competitive company with its own professional and skilled development training center
First career: Foreman
Most interested in meeting: Endalgeta Kebede
Most admired person: My Father
Stress reducer: Listening music
Favorite past time: Time with my kid
Favorite book: The Alchemist
Favorite destination: Bishoftu
Favorite automobile: Toyota Pick-up Hilux
Current, reliable and trusted data critical for Africa’s growth
The virtual United Nations World Data Forum ended Wednesday with the Economic Commission for Africa’s (ECA) Director for the Africa Statistics Centre, Oliver Chinganya, stressing the importance of current, reliable and trusted data to ensure Africa leaves no one behind as it implements the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Agenda 2063, the continent’s blueprint for development.
Speaking on a panel discussing the theme; Balancing Data and Data Protection: Learning from African Experiences, Chinganya said building trust in a field littered with many players is difficult but critical if it is to be used to unlock Africa’s full potential through evidence-based policymaking that will change people’s lives at the grassroots level.
He emphasized the importance of protecting data security, investing in quality data infrastructure, and practicing good governance to ensure laws and regulations are in place in member States to regulate collection, management and use of the numbers.
“Everyone agrees that data is important and has value. It is like a currency. It is gold. Others have even called it the new oil. It is simply an asset,” said Chinganya. “Everyone is interested in data and therefore we must have rules on how it is managed and used by everyone for everyone.”
He said this is why the UN Fundamental Principles on Official Statistics are in place, along with statistical laws or Statistics Acts and Statistics Code of Ethics, and in Africa in particular, the African Charter on Statistics to avoid abuse.
Chinganya underscored that the statistics landscape is one of the most populated areas with many actors but, he stressed, the national statistical office remained the authority on official statistics.
He said it was encouraging that most African countries now have data protection laws.
Africa Travel Week sounds the call for feel-good stories to #UnlockAfrica
Africa Travel Week is calling on all tourism and travel professionals to send in their feel-good stories as part of their #UnlockAfrica campaign to showcase the best of the continent.
“The goal is 50 positive news stories shared across our platforms over a period of 50 days from 01 November 2020,” says Megan Oberholzer, Portfolio Director: Travel, Tourism and Creative Industries at Reed Exhibitions.
“We’re leveraging the global reach of Reed Exhibitions to keep marketing Africa to the rest of the world – especially to our top source market countries still considered high risk,” she adds.
The stories will be curated on ATWConnect.com, Africa Travel Week’s digital platform offering industry news and insights, along with archived webinars and digital events. Through the launch of their insightful Meetings & Masterclasses over September and October, the Africa Travel Week team rallied together just over 800 members of the travel and tourism industry.
“This campaign ties into our common goal of #MakingTravelHappenAgain and nurturing a culture of ‘us’ within the industry,” she adds. “Over the past few months, we have found ourselves in awe of our community – marvelling at everyone’s spirit, grit and tenacity and we also want to ensure that those small wins worth celebrating aren’t lost in the online noise.”
From a successful first guest stay, a funny staff story, a stellar review or a recent product launch, the team at Africa Travel Week is looking for anything uplifting and positive from tour guides, operators, travel agents, airlines, hotels, lodges and accommodation groups.
“Good things happen all around us, every day, and it’s important not to lose sight of that, especially at a time when the world needs more good news,” Oberholzer concludes.
