Abay Tsehaye

Abay Tsehaye (Tigrinya: አባይ ፀሓዬ) is a former high level official of Ethiopia. Born in Axum, he attended high school in Mekelle.[1] Abay was a student activist while enrolled in Haile Selassie I University in the early 1970s as a member of the Tigrayan University Students' Association.[2] He was one of the founders of the Tigray Peoples' Liberation Front.[3] Abay was selected to be one of the first TPLF member to be given military training by the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) and he arrived in Asmara, January 1975.[4] With Meles Zenawi and Sibhat Nega, Abay was one of founders of the Marxist-Leninist League of Tigray in July, 1985.[5]

This article is about a person whose name includes a patronymic. The article properly refers to the person by his given name, Abay, and not as Tsehaye.
Abay Tsehaye
ኣባይ ፀሓየ
Executive Member of the Central Committee of the TPLF
In office
2001–2018
Personal details
BornAxum, Tigray Province, Ethiopia
Political partyEPRDF
Other political
affiliations		TPLF

Following the end of the Ethiopian Civil War, Abay became Minister of Federal Affairs in 2001. Abay is also an executive member of the Central Committee of the TPLF.[6]

References
  1. Aregawi Berhe, A Political history of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (1975-1991) (Los Angeles: Tsehai, 2009), p. 340
  2. Aregawi Berhe, "The origins of the Tigray People's Liberation Front", African Affairs 103 (2004), p. 577
  3. Aregawi, Political History, p. 40
  4. Aregawi, "The origins", p. 586
  5. Aregawi, Political History, p. 156
  6. "List of Central Committee members of the Tigray Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF)" Archived April 8, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front website (accessed 29 May 2009)


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