[5] By 2014, as a 17-year-old, he won the silver medal in the boys' 3000 metres event at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics held in Nanjing, China.

[6][7] After that performance, he was invited to train in Spain as part of a project offering opportunities to Burundian and Sudanese runners.

[3] Later that year, he won the men's race at the Cross Internacional de la Constitución held in Alcobendas, Spain.

He started the year with a 10 km PB in Castellon of 28:04, and went on to win the Gran Premio Campo a Traves in Serradilla, Spain.

The improvements in his times and performances gained him an entry to the Golden Gala Pietro Mennea in Rome (his first Diamond League race), where he ran a PB and NR of 12:59.39 for 8th.

He raced several more times on the Diamond League circuit over the course of that year: he was 2nd at the Meeting de Paris 5000m (13:05.24) and finished 5th over 3000m at the Bauhaus-Galan (7:34.91 PB),[8] before suffering an injury setback which ruled him out of the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Oregon.