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    In another development, seven people were feared dead in communal violence between residents of Ikot Ebiti village in Cross River State and the people of Amaekere, in Akwa Ibom State. Fighting was sparked by a boundary demarcation and adjustment report submitted on 27 April to the National Boundary Commission “which was said to favour the Ikot Ebiti village”, the ‘Post Express’ reported on Wednesday. Homes were burnt, displacing 800 Ikot Ebiti villagers and forcing some to take refuge in nearby villages, a witness said in the southeastern city of Calabar.

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