(CNN) -- The Sudanese government said Saturday that it had defeated members of a rebel group in fighting outside the capital of Khartoum, and Sudanese television broadcast pictures of dead rebel fighters and torched vehicles, said sources in the northern Darfur town of El Fasher.
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Sudan suffered through a 22-year civil war that ended in 2005. Two million people died, and an estimated 4 million others were driven from their homes.
The war pitted a government dominated by Arab Muslims in northern Sudan against black Christians and animists in the south.
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