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More violence in southwest

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    A fresh outbreak of fighting between rival communities in South-west Nigeria is reported to have left up to 25 people dead in the past few days, media organisations reported.

    More than 60 people are now believed to have died in clashes over the past two weeks between the Modakeke and Ife communities, about 230 km northeast of Lagos.

    The authorities have imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew and deployed riot police to the two communities but shooting continued on Thursday and houses were still being burned, AFP reported.

    Ife and Modakeke leaders were scheduled to meet government officials on Friday to discuss ways of ending the violence, which was sparked by a longstanding land dispute.

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