WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said he will begin working to help end Sudan's civil war after Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman urged him to intervene, signalling a potential deepening of Washington's role in a conflict that has killed at least 150, 000 people and pushed the country toward famine.
Speaking at the US-Saudi Investment Forum in Washington on Wednesday (local time), Trump said Sudan had not featured in his foreign-policy plans until the crown prince raised the issue during talks at the White House a day earlier.
"It was not on my charts to be involved in that. I thought it was just something that was crazy and out of control, " Trump told the audience. "But I see how important it is to you and to a lot of your friends in the room…We have already started working on it."
In a post on Truth Social minutes later, Trump described "tremendous atrocities" in Sudan and called it "the most violent place on Earth and… the single biggest humanitarian crisis."