Abay Tsehaye (Tigrinya: አባይ ፀሓዬ; died 13 January 2021) was an Ethiopian politician who has served as Executive Member of the Central Committee of the TPLF from 2001 to 2008. Born in Axum, he attended high school in Mekelle. 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. He was one of the founders of the Tigray Peoples' Liberation Front. 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. With Meles Zenawi and Sibhat Nega, Abay was one of founders of the Marxist-Leninist League of Tigray in July, 1985.
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