14, 2008

Approved candidate on “Inventory List” to be offered a Visiting Fellowship in Canadian Government Laboratory (VF), provided by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Canada, to promote excellence and intellectual creativity in both generation and use of new knowledge by awarding scholarships and research grants, for promising young qualified scientists.

2007

Postdoc Research Fellowship: Georg Forster Research Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation (AvH), Bonn, Germany. Within this program, AvH awards only 50 research scholarships per year in all discplines to highly qualified scientists from the developing countires to carry out research projects designed to promote the transfer of knowledge and new methods, and to contribute to the further development. The research project is being carried out at the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart,Germany.

Ph.D. full scholarship from German Academic Exchange Services (DAAD) at the University of Hohenheim, Germany.

M.Sc. full scholarship under German Academic Exchange Services – Natural Products Research Network for Eastern and Central Africa scholarship programme (DAAD- NAPRECA), Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. Eight months of which at the Uni. of Hohenheim, Germany

Full scholarschip from Detusche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) to participate in the 4^th International Training Course on: Biology and control of parasitic weeds, at Kenyan Agricultural Research Institute (KARI),Kenya

Particial financial award from International Association for Exchange of Students for Technical Experience (IAESTE), to obtain a four weeks technical experience at the Department of Agricultural Botany, Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

Full financial support from CTA’S Seminar Support Programme, Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Co-operation (CTA), ACP-EU (Africa, Caribbean and Pacific), to participate in the 4^th International Weed Science Congress (IWSC) and Special Symposium on Basic and Applied Aspects of Parasitic Weeds, Durban, South Africa

Full financial award provided by the SAFE (Science for Safe Food in Europe) Consortium “European Excellence in Food Safety” to participate in the Seminar Series

5 entitled   “Contaminants and influence   of agricultural practices   – mycotoxins;

chemical contaminants; microorganisms” which was held in Brussels, Belguim. The

Full financial award provided by the organizing committee (funds that designated for delegates from developing countries) and from Institute of plant production and agroecology in the tropics and subtropics (Institute 380), University of Hohenheim to particpate in the XI International Symposium on Biological Control of Weeds, Australia.

Full financial award from the European Weed Research Society (EWRS) to participate in the 12^th EWRS Symposium,TheNetherlands

Reserach grant from Saat-und Erntetechnik “SUET” GmbH, Eschwege, Germany.

Full financial support from CTA’S to participate in the International Symposium “The Practice of Biological Control: Importation and Management of Natural Enemies and Agents”, Bozeman, USA.

Full financial support from NATO Science Program, Institute (380), and Universitaetsbund, University of Hohenheim, to participate in NATO Advanced Research Workshop: Enhancing biocontrol agents and handling risks, Florence, Italy.

Research period at Danish Governmental Institute of Seed pathology for Developing Countries (DGISP), Copenhagen, Denmark, sponsored by DAAD and DGISP.

Full financial award from the International Weed Science Society to participate in the III International Weed Science Congress, Brazil.

Full financial support from the Organizing Committee of the X International Symposium on Biological Control of Weeds (XISBCW) & the Universitaetsbund, Hohenheim, Germany, the to participate in XISBCW, Bozeman, USA

Full financial award from GTZ and DAAD to participate in The Fourth International Workshop on Orobanche Research, Bulgaria