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Sources revealed that the Saudi Crown Prince believed Trump’s direct pressure was needed to break a logjam in talks to end more than two and a half years of war. The same sources referred to Trump’s work to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza last month.
Saudi Arabia’s defacto ruler Mohammed bin Salman pressed U.S. President Donald Trump to personally intervene to help end the war in Sudan during talks in Washington on Tuesday. Sources revealed that the Saudi Crown Prince believed Trump’s direct pressure was needed to break a logjam in talks to end more than two and a half years of war. The same sources referred to Trump’s work to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza last month.
The conflict erupted in 2023 amid a power struggle between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) ahead of a planned transition to civilian rule. It has caused ethnically-charged bloodletting, widespread destruction and mass displacement, drawing in foreign powers and threatening to split Sudan. Both the RSF and the army have increasingly relied on drone strikes in recent months, leading to heavy civilian casualties.
The Saudi government’s media office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Saudi plan to discuss Sudan with Trump was earlier reported bya website.
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The U.S., the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Egypt are members of a group formed to resolve the conflict and informally known as the Quad, though few tangible steps to ending the war have resulted. For Saudi Arabia, a resolution to the conflict is linked to national security, with hundreds of kilometres of Sudanese coastline lying opposite the kingdom’s Red Sea coast.Saudi Arabia and Egypt are seen as being closer to the Sudanese army.
