Mohamed Elmaki Ahmed
During a meeting with 5 African leaders, the American President Donald Trump announced on the 10th JULY 2025 that ‘’We’re facilitating peace in places like Sudan, where they have a lot of problems”.
This is the first announcement from Trump since his election as president and return to the White House in November 2024.
The presidential pledge was declared during a White House lunch with five visiting African leaders from Liberia, Senegal, Gabon, Mauritania, and Guinea-Bissau, on 9 July 2025.
There are two main facts behind this declaration.
When Trump met with six GCC leaders (Gulf Cooperation Council) in Saudi Arabia in May 2025, he discussed the crisis in Sudan.
Trump and five Gulf leaders stressed their support for the Jeddah platform, which means their full support for the Saudi Arabia mediation, which aims to stop the war through negotiations between the warring parties in Sudan, to put a peaceful solution to a horrendous war.
The Saudi role and commitment in this regard seemed very clear when Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman spoke during the Trump summit with the GCC leaders( Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain).
Mohammed Bin Salman said on 14 May 2025:’’ The kingdom would continue efforts through the Jeddah platform to end the conflict in Sudan’’.
Trump’s administration has been actively involved in Sudan.
America is playing a dual role, in two directions: through political action, pressure, and sanctions.
Months ago, the Trump administration imposed sanctions on military leaders, including the leader of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), General Abdulfatah Al–Burhan, and the leader of the Rapid Support Forces, General Mohammed Hamdan Daglo, better known as Hemedti.
Moreover, Trump’s government said Sudan (The military leaders in their emergency headquarters in Port Sudan ) used chemical weapons in war, and America imposed new sanctions.
But with the continued imposition of these sanctions, Washington has not closed the door to consultations with countries in the region, concerned with Sudanese affairs, because it has influential fingerprints on the Sudanese situation.
America is discussing the complicated situation in Sudan in closed rooms of what is called the Quartet, a committee consisting of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and the USA.
The target of this committee is to discuss the situation in Sudan and see how they can work together in order to achieve a permanent solution for the Sudanese crisis, which has bad human dimensions and secessions.
According to the UN, the humanitarian situation is the worst in the world.
Large numbers that are difficult to count have now been killed, and more than 14 million were forced to flee their homes.
Despite all these harsh realities, the warring parties are continuing to kill and destroy the country.
Their main goal is to seize power and the Sudanese wealth and gain legitimacy, but this is an impossible goal, because the choice of most people is a civilian government, not a military regime or extremist rule that kills people and ignites wars.
In this context, the International Criminal Court condemned violations in Sudan in its latest report to the Security Council, it emphasised that ‘’War crimes and crimes against humanity are taking place in Sudan’’
The tribunal’s deputy prosecutor, Nazhat Shameem Khan, said: “People are being deprived of water and food’’ and “Rape and sexual violence are being weaponised. Abductions for ransom or to bolster the ranks of armed groups have become common practice.”
Despite the vital role of the ICC, I think Trump, who is working hard to be the first and biggest pioneer of peace in the world during this period, has a historic opportunity, and he can also stop the war in Sudan if he sees that he has an interest in it.
He can exert intense pressure on all parties involved in the war, to stop bloodshed, whether through negotiations or his preferred philosophy ‘’ peace through force”.
Trump knows the leaders who are currently fighting in Sudan; he dealt with some of them during his first term, especially those who had decided to join the Abraham Accords.
On 14 December 2020, and after 27 years of isolation and international blockade, Trump decided to remove Sudan from the list of terrorists. This happened through a deal, and he loves financial and political deals.
But, do the warlords have anything to offer Trump now to make a deal, especially since they committed a crime of a military coup, and after that current war that put down a civilian transitional government, which was a result of a brilliant, peaceful popular revolution in 2019?
I believe that the future in Sudan is for peace, freedom, justice and democracy, and diversity is a Sudanese reality.
This is a Sudanese truth, and a renewed lesson for those who want to learn from Sudanese events, in the region, the USA, and at the forefront of them is Trump.
As I said earlier, extinguishing the Sudanese fire is among Trump’s priorities in the Middle East.
There is no military solution to the war in Sudan and anywhere in the world.
The negotiation table is the preferred choice for humanity today and tomorrow.
The current situation in Sudan is fluid and too dangerous.
The warlords prefer the option of the gun, not dialogue, and the humanitarian situation is deteriorating terrifyingly.
The war will not stop unless Trump, the Quartet and major countries put intense and sustained pressure on the warring parties.
News from Washington and around the world will soon surprise those who are deluded.
