Six months of Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict: A timeline
As fighting in Ethiopia’s northernmost region hits the six-month mark, we take a look at some of the most important events of the conflict.
![The conflict is estimated to have killed thousands of people, if not more [File: Eduardo Soteras/AFP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/000_94J3BD.jpg?resize=770%2C513)
4 May 2021
Six months ago, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed sent federal troops into Tigray for a military campaign against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), the northern region’s ruling party that had dominated national politics for decades.