Lieutenant General Tadesse Werede

Angry at Addis Ababa's unilateral one-year extension of the term of Tigray's interim leader Lieutenant General Tadesse Werede the TPLF's Central Committee has restored the regional legislative council deemed unconstitutional by the federal government in the run-up to the Tigray-Addis Ababa war in 2020...

Federal authorities have extended Lieutenant-General Tadesse Werede's term as president of the Tigray Interim Regional Administration (TIRA) for a year the least risky option for Addis Ababa...

On 31 January TIRA President Tadesse Werede – whose administration is TPLF-controlled – gave the first official account from Mekelle framing the incident as a limited defensive intervention...

Politically connected insiders told Africa Confidential the move had at least tacit approval from senior TPLF figures who wanted to show both the federal government and TIRA head Lieutenant-General Tadesse Werede (nominally still head of Tigray's military) that the region has tools at its disposal and that their patience is finite...

But the TIRA leader General Tadesse Werede is accused by the TPLF of appeasing Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed...

Lieutenant-General Tadesse Werede was installed as TIRA president – widely seen as the TPLF's choice (AC Vol 65 No 19 How Tigray is turning on itself)...

New interim president Lieutenant General Tadesse Werede signed a document affirming federal terms yet a TPLF-aligned cabinet showed where the authority lies (AC Vol 66 No 6 Tigray's political fight sounds alarm)...

The new interim president of Tigray Tadesse Worede was formerly commander-in-chief of the TDF...

We hear that Tadesse Werede a top commander in the Tigray war is favoured to replace Getachew as interim president...

One of the key figures is Tadesse Werede the top commander who is a deputy leader of the interim administration...