Nine students representing Ethiopia at 8th Huawei ICT Competition regional final in Tunisia

Addis Ababa, March 6, 2024 (FBC) – Huawei in collaboration with Ethiopian ministry of education launched Huawei ICT completion 2023-2024 in Ethiopia last year. Following the completion of the national ICT contest, nine Ethiopian university students have been selected to represent their country at the 8th Huawei ICT Competition 2023-2024 Regional Final in Tunisia.

Ethiopian university students who won the national final Huawei ICT competition in Addis Ababa are representing Ethiopia in the regional competition, which is now taking place in Tunisia.

Students will compete amongst 90 students from 9 Counties, namely Ethiopia, Mali, Cameroon, Senegal, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, and Morocco.

The 6th round in Ethiopia and the 8th in the world Huawei ICT competition 2023/2024, which attracts more than 1,000 higher education students, held their preliminary and national final exams consecutively in Ethiopia.

More than 280 higher education students completed the preliminary exam on 15 December 2023, with 80 of them proceeding to the national final competition, which was held online. Among them, nine passed the regional Huawei ICT final exam, which is taking place in Tunisia from March 5 to 8, 2024.

Huawei ICT Competition is a competitive ICT talent exchange event designed for global college students. Huawei stated that it intends to give students with an environment for healthy competition and idea exchange, thereby improving their ICT knowledge and practical abilities, as well as their ability to innovate by utilizing new technologies and platforms.

Ethiopian students competing in Tunisia hail from Addis Ababa Science and Technology, Jimma, Haromaya, and Arbaminch Universities.

Ethiopian students previously achieved third place at the 7th Huawei ICT global final competition, which took place in Shenzhen, China, from May 24 to May 28, 2023.