Tigray's Former Interim President Has Been Moved From His Home to an Undisclosed Location

General Tadesse Werede, the former president of the Tigray regional interim administration, has been taken into full custody and moved to an undisclosed location, a source close to him told Tikvah Ethiopia. The source put the move on the afternoon of 24 September.

For roughly 18 hours before that, according to the same account, the guards assigned to him had all been replaced, and his family could neither enter nor leave the house.

Why the detail about the guards matters

The sequence described — a full rotation of the protective detail, then a household sealed, then a transfer out — is the difference between a protected official and a detained one. It is also the difference between the restriction reported earlier this week and what is being described now.

fact.et reported on 24 September that the European Union had pointed specifically at house arrests among senior Tigrayan figures while Washington was condemning the TPLF offensive. If this account holds, the position has moved from confinement at a known address to detention at an unknown one, inside about a day.

What has not been said

No federal or regional authority has confirmed the detention, named the body holding him, stated a legal basis, or said whether a charge has been filed. Ethiopian law requires a detainee to be brought before a court within 48 hours of arrest, exclusive of travel time; on the reported timeline that window runs out over the weekend.

The single-source, anonymous character of this report is a real limit, and fact.et has not independently confirmed it. It is carried here because the detention of the most recent head of a regional administration, during active fighting in that region, is a fact the market and the public have a direct interest in — and because no official body has offered a competing account.

Open

Nobody has confirmed where General Tadesse Werede is being held or under what authority. The federal government has not commented. The Amharic report underlying this account reaches fact.et through machine translation, and the name and title above are taken from the original Amharic text rather than the translation.

Sources: Tikvah Ethiopia, 24 September 2026