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Navy deployed to end communal violence

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    Nigerian authorities have deployed naval troops to end weeks of violence between two communities in the oil-rich southeast that has claimed at least 15 lives, a media source told IRIN on Monday.

    The Bille and Ke communities in the Degema district of the Niger Delta region have both laid claim to land on which Royal/Dutch Shell has built an oil facility. Each community maintains that it should receive the benefits accruing from the station.

    A reporter who visited the area, Nyime Amoo, told IRIN that the navy was sent in after police repeatedly failed to quell the violence, in which the belligerents used sophisticated weapons.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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