In response to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s alleged request, US President Donald Trump has stated that he will take action to resolve the conflict in Sudan.
Trump made the announcement on Wednesday that he would intervene twice, once at the Saudi Investment Forum in Washington, DC, and once more on Truth Social, his website.
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Trump wrote that “Arab leaders from all over the world, particularly the renowned Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, who has just left the United States,” have asked me to use the power and influence of the presidency to put an end to what is happening in Sudan.
It is regarded as a “Great Civilization and Culture,” which, regrettably, can be improved through international cooperation and coordination.
Trump recalled how the crown prince personally contacted him for assistance during the investment forum.
He mentioned Sudan and Sudan yesterday and said, “Sir, you’re talking about a lot of wars, but there’s a place on Earth called Sudan, and it’s horrible what’s happening,” Trump said.
Within a half-hour of the crown prince’s request, the US president added that his administration had “already begun working” on the matter.
Prince Mohammed, who is better known as his initials MBS, made his first official appearance since 2018, this week in Washington, DC. The two leaders’ mutual praise and the promise of more US-Saudi investments helped to fuel the trip.
Following the business forum, Prince Mohammed wrapped up his two-day trip on Wednesday.
Trump, who has long supported the Nobel Peace Prize, stated that he would work with Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries to resolve Sudan’s conflict.
Trump stated in his post that “we will work with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and other Middle Eastern partners to end these atrocities while stabilizing Sudan.”
In April 2023, Sudan’s government-controlled Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) clashed to take control of areas including Khartoum, prompting the government’s government-controlled civil war.
As a result, there has been widespread famine, displacement, and bloodshed. The country is on pace to surpass the civilian death toll for all of 2024, which reached 4, 238, with the United Nations documenting at least 3, 384 civilian deaths between January and June of this year.
El-Fasher and Kadugli, two cities hit by the war, are experiencing famine this month, according to a UN-backed analysis. As a result of the conflict, about 45 percent of the population is suffering from acute food insecurity.
More than four million people have fled Sudan as a result of the fighting, which has increased regional instability. The UN has found evidence of widespread slayings, ethnic cleansing, and sexual violence being used as a means of conflict in Sudan.
The top UN official for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief, Tom Fletcher, recently described El-Fasher as a “crime scene” after it fell to RSF forces last month in a post about his trip.
Sudan has experienced three internal conflicts in just 40 years, with the most recent ones spanning 1955 to 1972 and 1983 to 2005.
Despite a growing bombing campaign in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean, Trump has aimed to brand himself as the “peace leader.”
In his second inaugural address in January, he declared, “My proudest legacy will be that of peacemaker and unifier.”
Trump and his supporters claim that the US president has “eight wars in eight months,” but some question whether the agreements he has reached will last.
Attacks have continued in some instances, as has the UN’s “genocide” in Gaza case. Critics claim that there was no end to the conflict between Egypt and Ethiopia, despite the two nations’ long-standing hostility.
Yet, leaders of several of the participating nations, including those from Israel, Armenia, and Azerbaijan, have pledged to nominate Trump for his highly sought-after Nobel Prize.
Trump made a point about the humanitarian needs of the civilians who were engulfed in the conflict in Sudan.
Source: Aljazeera
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