Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An haife shi ne a lardin Welega da ke yammacin Addis Ababa kuma ya tafi babban birnin kasar a shekarar 2005 don neman aikin gudu bayan ya lashe wasu tseren yanki. Merga ya fara fitowa a duniya a shekara ta 2006, inda ya lashe gasar rabin Marathon ta Paris a lokacin 60:45. Daga baya a waccan shekarar, ya gama na shida a gasar tseren tsere ta IAAF ta 2006, yana taimaka wa Habasha ta lashe lambar tagulla a gasar kungiya. A watan Disamba na wannan shekarar ya lashe tseren Montferland Run na kilomita 15 a cikin lokacin rikodin hanya na 42:48. Ya dauki lambar zinare na rabin marathon a Wasannin Afirka na 2007 amma ya rasa lambar yabo a gasar IAAF ta Duniya ta 2007
, ya gama a matsayi na hudu.