General Tsadkan Gebretensae

By early January General Tsadkan Gebretensae a veteran guerrilla leader and a former Chief of Staff of ENDF retired by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi in 2001 had taken charge of strategy...

Military strategists in the TDF such as General Tsadkan Gebretensae who was a commander in the 1999-2000 border war knows well the strengths of the Eritrean forces and the risk of Tigrayan overeach (AC Vol 39 No 18 Brothers at war)...

Tsadkan Gebretensae may be moved to the Ministry of Defence with the northern army commander Major Gen...

A leading candidate for Defence Minister is the Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Tsadkan Gebretensae...

Meles prefers to operate by consensus and was shaken by the criticism some of it from close colleagues including Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin and Chief of Staff General Tsadkan Gebretensae...

He was re-elected Chairman and his closest associates remain unchallenged in the Politbureau: Tewolde Woldemariam head of the TPLF's organisational department and now Deputy Chairman; Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin; and the Chief of Staff Major General Tsadkan Gebretensae...

Ironically ARDUF had been trying to talk to Addis Ababa: Muhyadin took part in ARDUF's abortive 1995 discussions with Major General Tsadkan Gebretensae Deputy Minister of Defence...

Still at the apex of the military are the loyalist Tigrayan People's Liberation Front fighters who led the war against Mengistu: former Chief of Staff Tsadkan Gebretensae now Deputy Defence Minister has been promoted to major-general...