Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Ya dawo a 2008 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, amma ya yi nisa daga mafi kyawun tsari kuma ya gama a 41st wuri. Ayyukansa a
2008 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships ya nuna alamar dawowa zuwa dacewa yayin da ya ɗauki matsayi na bakwai. Ya lashe tseren tsaunin kasa da kasa na Obudu Ranch a shekarar 2008 kuma aikinsa na karya rikodin ya ba shi dalar Amurka 50,000 (babbar kyautar da ake samu don tseren tsaunuka). Dinkesa ya ci nasara a kan manyan abokan hamayyarsa a Babban Gidan Gida na Edinburgh a watan Janairu na shekara mai zuwa, inda ya doke Zersenay Tadese da Eliud Kipchoge zuwa ƙarshe. Ya rasa cancantar shiga gasar zakarun kasa na wannan shekarar amma ya sami zaɓi don gasar zakarun duniya ta 2009 a wasannin motsa jiki. Ya yi tsere a tseren mita 10,000, amma bai gama tseren ba. Ya gama na uku a tseren Obudu a watan Disamba, wanda kuma shi ne na farko na gasar tseren tsaunukan Afirka. Ya lashe taken Afirka a 2010, yana fuskantar kalubale daga Habtamu Fikadu.