Abay Tsehaye
Abay Tsehaye | |
|---|---|
| አባይ ፀሓዬ | |
| Executive Member of the Central Committee of the TPLF | |
| In office 2001–2018 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Tigray, Ethiopia |
| Political party | EPRDF |
| Other political affiliations | TPLF |
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Abay Tsehaye (Tigrinya: አባይ ፀሓዬ) is an Ethiopian politician and 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 membes 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]
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
- ^ Aregawi Berhe, A Political history of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (1975-1991) (Los Angeles: Tsehai, 2009), p. 340
- ^ Aregawi Berhe, "The origins of the Tigray People's Liberation Front", African Affairs 103 (2004), p. 577
- ^ Aregawi, Political History, p. 40
- ^ Aregawi, "The origins", p. 586
- ^ Aregawi, Political History, p. 156
- ^ "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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