Senaf Wakuma Demise (; born 23 September 1999) is an Ethiopian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Tanzanian Women's Premier League club Simba Queens and the Ethiopia national team. Club career A product of the Tirunesh Dibaba Training Center, she went on to play for Ethiopian top-flight clubs Adama City, Mechal, and CBE.
In 2019, Wakuma helped Adama City win its first Ethiopian Women's Premier League title, scoring 21 goals in 20 matches to claim the Golden Boot. Following her performances that season, she travelled to Sweden in June for a two-week trial.
In the 2022–23 season with Mechal, Wakuma scored 16 goals.
During the 2024 CAF Women's Champions League CECAFA Qualifiers, Wakuma helped CBE win the tournament for the first time, scoring six goals, including the winning goal in the final, to finish as the tournament's top scorer. Later, in November 2024, at the final tournament, she scored CBE's only goal of the campaign.
In Late July 2026, Wakuma joined Tanzanian Women's Premier League side Simba Queens on a one-year deal. International career Wakuma first represented Ethiopia at under-20 level during the 2018 African U-20 Women's World Cup qualification.
In April 2018, Wakuma was called up to the Ethiopia senior national team for the 2018 Women's Africa Cup of Nations qualification matches against Libya. In July of the same year, she scored her first goal for the team against 2018 CECAFA Women's Championship hosts Rwanda. International goals Scores and results list Ethiopia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Wakuma goal. No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition1 23 July 2018 Kigali Stadium, Kigali, Rwanda 3–03–0 2018 CECAFA Championship221 November 2019Azam Complex Stadium, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania1–08–02019 CECAFA Championship35–04 26 October 2021 Bahir Dar International Stadium, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia 1–02–0 2022 WAfCON qualification516 July 2023Abebe Bikila Stadium, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia2–04–02024 Olympic qualifying tournament63–0
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