title: Chief of the General Staff (Senegal)
text: # Chief of the General Staff (Senegal)
  
  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 Air Corps Mbaye Cissé.
  
  ## Duties
  
  He is responsible for the preparation of military plans and operations:
  
  * General Staff
  * Directorate of Military Security;
  * Department of Information and Public Relations
  
  He directly exercises his authority over:
  
  * Chief of the Army Staff
  * Chief of Staff of the Navy
  * Chief of Staff of the Air Force
  * Military zone commanders
  
  The directors of the specialized services departments placed for employment with him are:
  
  * Engineering Management
  * Material Department (DIRMAT)
  * Direction of Transmissions (DIRTRANS);
  * Stewardship Department (DIRINT);
  * Armed Forces Health Directorate (DSA)
  
  ## List
  
  | No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Term of office | Term of office | Term of office | Ref. |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Took office | Left office | Time in office | Ref. |
  | 1 | | General Amadou Fall | 1960 | 1960 | 0 years | |
  | 2 | | Colonel Abdoulaye Soumaré [fr] (1905–1964) | 1960 | 19 August 1960 | 0 years | |
  | 3 | | Colonel Idrissa Fall [fr] (born 1932) | 20 August 1960 | 1962 | 1–2 years | |
  | 4 | | Major general Jean Alfred Diallo [fr] (1911–2006) | 17 December 1962 | 30 June 1972 | 9 years, 196 days | |
  | (3) | | Colonel Idrissa Fall [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 Mamadou Mansour Seck [fr] | 31 May 1988 | 30 June 1993 | 5 years, 30 days | |
  | 7 | | General Mouhamadou Lamine Keita [fr] | 30 June 1993 | 30 June 1996 | 3 years, 0 days | |
  | 8 | | General of the army Lamine Cissé [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 Papa Khalilou Fall [fr] (born 1947) | 12 August 2003 | 31 May 2006 | 2 years, 292 days | |
  | 12 | | Lieutenant general Abdoulaye Fall [fr] (born 1952) | 1 June 2006 | 30 October 2012 | 6 years, 151 days | |
  | 13 | | General Mamadou Sow [fr] (born 1956) | 30 October 2012 | 31 December 2016 | 4 years, 62 days | |
  | 14 | | General Cheikh Gueye [fr] (born 1960) | 1 January 2017 | 31 December 2019 | 3 years, 364 days | |
  | 15 | | General of air corps Birame Diop | 1 January 2020 | 1 April 2021 | 1 year, 90 days | |
  | 16 | | Army corps general Cheikh Wade | 1 April 2021 | 6 April 2023 | 2 years, 5 days | |
  | 17 | | General of air corps Mbaye Cissé | 6 April 2023 | Incumbent | 112 days | |
  