ETHIOPIA: The United Nations human rights office said today that at least 183 people have been killed in clashes in Ethiopia’s Amhara region since July as Amhara fighters resist efforts by the federal government to disband them.

The UN office also said the human rights situation in Ethiopia is deteriorating, with more than 1,000 people reportedly arrested under a state of emergency declared early this month over the unrest.

NIGERIA: Police in Nigeria said today they detained at least 67 people celebrating a gay wedding, in one of the country’s largest arrests targeting outlawed homosexuality.

The “gay suspects” were arrested in southern Delta state’s Ekpan town in the early hours of this morning at an event where two of them were wedded, state police spokesman Bright Edafe told reporters. He said that homosexuality “will never be tolerated” in the west African nation.

BOSNIA: The European Court of Human Rights ruled today that Bosnia’s political system, set up under a US-brokered peace deal in the 1990s, amplifies ethnic divisions and undermines the Balkan country’s democratic elections.

The ECHR sided with Slaven Kovacevic, a Sarajevo-born political scientist who sued Bosnia last year, arguing that it prevents people who refuse to affiliate with one of Bosnia’s three dominant ethnic groups from voting for candidates of their choosing.

CHILE: According to the president of the Chilean College of Teachers, Carlos Diaz, more than 100,000 teachers from all over the country were set to take indefinite strike action today.

The teachers are demanding the back-payment of several years of wages and pensions owed to them by the state.