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The announcement follows the paramilitary group鈥檚 capture of El Fasher, the last military-held city in the Darfur region, after an 18-month-long siege. The Rapid Support Forces, which has been fighting the military for over two years in a civil war that has claimed as many as 150,000 lives, said it 鈥渓ooks forward鈥 to beginning talks on ending hostilities. A military official told The Associated Press a truce must include fighters withdrawing from civilian areas and surrendering weapons.
