Dakar: Colonel Massamba Thiam Takes Command of Military Zone No. 1

Colonel Massamba Thiam officially took command of Dakar’s Military Zone No. 1 at a ceremony held at the parade ground in the Dial Diop district. Presided over by Vice Admiral Oumar Wade, chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, the event was attended by Dakar’s governor and mayor, as well as military zone personnel. The ceremony included a military honors presentation, a troop review, the formal handover of the flag and a military parade. Thiam, a 28-year service veteran, succeeds Colonel Clément Chrisogone Nassalan, who has been assigned to the Senegalese Defense Institute.