Trump: US working to end war in Sudan at the request of Arab leaders.
According to Reuters, Donald Trump wrote in a message on social media: Arab leaders from around the world, especially the very respected Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, who recently left the United States, have asked me to use the power and influence of the presidency to immediately stop what is happening in Sudan.
The US president also announced at the US-Saudi Investment Forum, after meeting with Mohammed bin Salman at the White House, that he would work to end the war in Sudan.
At the gathering, which was attended by the Saudi Crown Prince and his accompanying delegation, Trump added that his administration had begun working to resolve the Sudanese war half an hour after bin Salman made his request at a meeting on Tuesday.
The US president said: “He [bin Salman] said, referring to Sudan, ‘You talk about a lot of wars, but there is a place on earth called Sudan, and what is happening there is terrible.'”
He also added in a message on the social network Truth Social that the United States will work with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and other Middle Eastern countries to end the violence in the region and stabilize the situation in Sudan.
Trump wrote: “There are so many atrocities happening in Sudan. It has become the most violent place on earth and the largest humanitarian crisis. Food, medicine, and everything else are desperately needed.”
Reuters reported, citing five sources familiar with the matter, that the Saudi crown prince believes that direct pressure from Trump is necessary to break the deadlock in talks to end more than 2 and a half years of war in Sudan, and pointed to his efforts to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza last month.
According to the report, for Saudi Arabia, resolving the Sudan conflict is a matter of national security, as it has hundreds of miles of Sudanese coastline along the kingdom’s Red Sea coast.
Armed clashes in Sudan began on April 15, 2023, between the army commanded by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces commanded by Mohammed Hamdan Daqlou, nicknamed “Hamidati”, over power and tension regarding how to integrate the Rapid Support Forces into the army after the 2021 coup, and international mediation to end it has so far been fruitless.