Birhanu Bekele

Major General Birhanu Bekele (full name: Berhanu Bekele Bedada) is the Ethiopian Major general who also serves as the head of the Republican Guard a special protection and operations unit inside the Ethiopian Ministry of Defense which is only obliged to the Prime Minister. He was a Brigadier General but later promoted to Major general on January 1, 2020.^[1][2][3]

Birhanu Bekele
Chief Commander of the Republican Guard
incumbent
Assumed office January 1, 2020
Major General
Incumbent
Assumed office January 1, 2020
Brigadier General
Incumbent
Assumed office February 3, 2018, ended January 1, 2020

Career

The General has served years in the Ethiopian National Defense forces he came into the rank of Brigadier General. He later became a Major General on June 28, 2019, who is tasked with being also the Chief Commander of the Republican Guard. A group of specialists trained unit protecting high level country officials. The Major General had served as a colonel before becoming a brigadier general on February 3, 2018.^[4][5][6]