Africa-Press – Senegal. The taking over ceremony of Lieutenant General Mbaye Cissé, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces (CEMGA) is scheduled for Tuesday from 10 a.m., a-t- we learned from the Armed Forces Information and Public Relations Department (DIRPA).
It will be held in the Dial Diop district, under the chairmanship of Maitre Sidiki Kaba, Minister of the Armed Forces, indicates the same source on his twitter account.
According to DIRPA, the ceremony will include a taking of arms, a wreath laying, the signing of the Visitors’ Book, a speech by the Minister of the Armed Forces, the handing over of the command pennant, the reading of the Order of the Day N °1 of the CEMGA.
The Senegalese presidency announced, in early April, the elevation of Major General Mbaye Cissé to the rank of General of the Army and his appointment to the post of Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces (CEMGA) to replace General Cheikh Wade.
The new Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Mbaye Cissé, aged 59, is a senior officer experienced in command tasks.
Former child of troops at the Prytanée militaire de Saint-Louis, General Cissé, Chief of Staff of the President of the Republic until his appointment to the functions of CEMGA, received his officer’s stripes on leaving the National School for Active Officers (ENOA) in Thiès, which he joined in 1988.
After a practical application at the Artillery Application School of Draguignan, France, he successively held the positions of artillery observer officer, reconnaissance officer, and finally firing officer within the battery. 105 HM2 Bravo and Alpha.
At the end of his time in command as corps commander, the graduate of the Captains Course at the Artillery School of Fort Sill (Okalhoma) joined the General Staff of the Armed Forces in 2009, as chief of the General Studies Division until 2012. When he joined the UN mission in Congo as deputy head of the security sector reform unit.
From 2013 to 2015, he served as Deputy Senior Officer to the Commander of Military Zone No. 3 in Kaolack, his hometown, before joining the Army General Staff, as Head of the human resources.
With a certificate of higher military education at the Inter-Army Defense College (ex-Ecole de guerre Paris), he subsequently commanded (2016-2019) the military zone n ° 2 in Saint-Louis, before occupying the position of chief Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces until June 2020. He was Director General of the Center for Advanced Defense and Security Studies (CHEDS) from July 2020.
General Cissé, the son of a gendarme, is a graduate of the United States Army Command and Staff School and has a certificate from the Ecole Supérieure de Guerre in Paris (formerly the Inter-Army College of defense).
He has also completed other training in the field of defense and security sector reform in general.
He holds a master’s certificate in philosophy, a certificate of higher education in psychology and sociology, a Master 2 in international relations (option Public law-Security-Defence) obtained at the University of Paris 2 Pantheon Assas, in France.
The former promotion director, then head of the ENOA tactical unit is notably the author of the souvenir book « Jambaar 1960-2010 », and « Operation Fodé Kaba II » in which he evokes the military highlights of the Senegalese armies in Gambia, in 1981.
Winner of several distinctions, the former director of the Center for Advanced Defense and Security Studies, also has to his credit several publications in military journals in the fields of geopolitics, security, defense and history. military.
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