Businesses reopened and traffic was back in urban centres of Ethiopia's Amhara region on Wednesday after six days of violent protests over a planned shakeup of local forces, residents said.
At least five people have died in the demonstrations which are a fresh security challenge to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government following a two-year war in neighbouring Tigray region which ended with a truce last November.
Protesters say the intended reassignment of Amhara's special forces into the federal or regional police and national army would leave the region vulnerable to attacks from other regions in the ethnically-splintered nation.
