An estimated one million troops are engaged in the battlefields of the northern Ethiopian region

While most global leaders’ attention is on the Ukraine war, the world’s bloodiest armed conflict continues to rage in the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray, where half a million people are thought to have died.

The Ethiopian military and allies including troops from neighbouring Eritrea have been battling Tigray forces on and off for two years.

The conflict has displaced millions of people and a near total blockade of the Tigray region has left hundreds of thousands on the brink of famine.

On the battlefields, an estimated one million troops are engaged in the offensive, making it the biggest conflict in the world right now, according to Kjetil Tronvoll, an anthropologist and conflict professor at Oslo New University College in Norway.