Chief of the General Staff (Senegal)

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The Chief of the Defense Staff (French: Chefs d'État-Major général des armées) is the professional head of the Armed Forces of Senegal. He/she is responsible for the administration and the operational control of the military of Senegal. The current chief is General of the Air Corps Birame Diop.

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No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office			Ref.
			Took office	Left office	Time in office
1		General	1960	1960	0 years	[1]
2		Colonel Soumaré	1960	19 August 1960	0 years
3		Colonel  [fr] (born 1932)	20 August 1960	1962	1–2 years
4		Major general  [fr] (1911–2006)	17 December 1962	30 June 1972	9 years, 196 days
(3)		Colonel  [fr] (born 1932)	1 July 1972	30 June 1984	12 years, 0 days
5		General Joseph Louis Tavarez de Souza	1 July 1984	31 May 1988	3 years, 335 days
6		General of air corps  [fr]	31 May 1988	30 June 1993	5 years, 30 days
7		General  [fr]	30 June 1993	30 June 1996	3 years, 0 days
8		General of the army  [fr] (1939–2019)	1 July 1996	31 December 1997	1 year, 183 days
9		Major general Mamadou Seck	1 January 1998	30 April 2000	2 years, 120 days
10		Lieutenant general Babacar Gaye (born 1951)	1 May 2000	12 August 2003	3 years, 103 days
11		Lieutenant general  [fr] (born 1947)	12 August 2003	31 May 2006	2 years, 292 days
12		Lieutenant general  [fr] (born 1952)	1 June 2006	30 October 2012	6 years, 151 days
13		General  [fr] (born 1956)	30 October 2012	31 December 2016	4 years, 62 days
14		General  [fr] (born 1960)	1 January 2017	31 December 2019	3 years, 364 days
15		General of air corps	1 January 2020	Incumbent	1 year, 253 days	[2]

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