US President Donald Trump said he was ready to put an end to the ongoing hostilities in Sudan after Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman asked the president to help restore peace in the war-torn African country.
President Trump, who claims to have ended 8 wars since assuming office in January this year, agreed to help in finding a long-lasting peaceful solution to the deadly civil war between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
The announcement was made after Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) used his first trip to Washington in seven years to ask the US leader to intervene in the conflict. Trump said that the war, which started in 2023, "wasn't on my charts" before the dialogue with the crown prince.
"His majesty would like me to do something very powerful having to do with Sudan," he said at a business forum with the Saudi royal.
In response, Sudanese government-led army Chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said it would be willing to cooperate with the US and Saudi Arabia to bring peace. In a statement after the meeting between the MBS and Trump, Fattah al-Burhan expressed a "readiness to seriously engage with them to achieve the peace that the Sudanese people hope for."
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Trump said the country was in a crazy phase, and he would not have done anything to improve the situation on the ground, knowing that the two sides wanted to prolong the fight.
The latest observation by the Republican President came after the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the UAE's foreign minister to ask Abu Dhabi to back a Sudan ceasefire on November 14.
The war, which erupted in 2023, has killed more than 40,000 people and is said to have displaced over 14 million people. The US president said he understood the importance of the matter for MBS and said, “We're going to start working on Sudan."
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