Tessema Weyesa Bamlak Biography Tessema Weyesa Bamlak is an international referee from Ethiopia. He was born 30 December 1980 at Addis Ababa. He was promoted and became FIFA referee in the year 2009, He has served as a referee at the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, beginning with the first-round match between Djibouti and Namibia. He is one of the referees at the 2018 FIFA world cup