Tadesse Werede

In this Ethiopian name, the name Werede Tesfay is a patronymic, and the person should be referred by the given name, Wedi Werede.

Lieutenant General Tadesse Werede Tesfay (Tigrinya: ታደሰ ወረደ (ወዲ ወረደ); born 13 July 1958) is an Ethiopian military officer and politician who is Commander-in Chief of the Tigray Defense Forces since 2021, and currently the chief administrator of the Tigray Region since 2025.

Lieutenant General Tadesse Werede Wedi Werede
ታደሰ ወረደ (ወዲ ወረደ)
Chief Administrator of the Interim Regional Administration of Tigray
Incumbent
Assumed office 8 April 2025
Preceded by	Getachew Reda
Deputy Chief Administrator of the Interim Regional Administration of Tigray
In office 25 March 2023 – 8 April 2025
Commander in Chief, Tigray Defense Forces
Incumbent
Assumed office 2021
Preceded by	Tsadkan Gebretensae
Army Corps Commander, Tigray Defense Force
In office 2020–2021
Head of Mission and Force Commander for the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei
In office 27 July 2011 – 12 March 2013
Nominated by	Ban Ki-moon
Succeeded by	Yohannes Gebremeskel Tesfamariam
Head of the Joint Training Department, Ethiopian National Defense Force
Personal details
Born	(1958-07-13) 13 July 1958 (age 67) Mekelle, Tigray, Ethiopian Empire

Life and career

Tadesse Werede in Mekelle, a city in Enderta woreda of the Tigray Region on 13 July 1958.^[1] He was the Head of Mission and Force Commander of the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) from its inception in 2011 until 2013. He was appointed by the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to implement the mandate of the UN peacekeeping mission in the region of Abyei in Sudan, an oil-producing region with disputable borders between the governments of Sudan and South Sudan.^[2]

UNISFA was established by the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1990 of 27 June 2011.^[3] Lieutenant General Tadesse Werede Tesfay was appointed to oversee the monitoring and verification of the withdrawal of all armed forces in Abyei.^[4]