Trump admin ramps up Sudan peace effort as civil war leaves tens of thousands dead

President Donald Trump’s planetary roller coaster of bid moves — led by him and his squad to extremity wars astir the satellite — is present picking up velocity successful Sudan, wherever a 30-month warfare has near tens of thousands dead, and immoderate 14 cardinal displaced from their homes.

"Ending wars is simply a precedence for President Trump, and the United States remains focused connected moving with our partners and different stakeholders to resoluteness the situation successful Sudan," a State Department spokesperson told Fox News Digital connected Wednesday, adding, "Engagement with each applicable stakeholders is indispensable to achieving this goal. Given the contiguous urgency of de-escalating the violence, we volition proceed to prosecute with the belligerents to extremity the conflict."

Talks to extremity the warring betwixt the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia, led by Gen. Muhammad Hamdan Dagalo Musa, known arsenic Hemedti, and the Khartoum government’s Sudan Armed Forces (SAF), nether the power of Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, began during the Biden medication but failed to marque headway. They person since gained momentum nether President Trump, with the U.S. forming a alleged planetary Quad successful September with Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

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Sudanese who fled el-Fasher city, aft paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) killed hundreds of radical successful the occidental Darfur region, stitchery astatine a campy successful Tawila, Sudan. (AP Photo/Muhnnad Adam)

Since the weekend, the gait of bid talks has go positively frenetic. The White House’s elder advisor for Arab and African Affairs, Massad Boulos, caller from brokering a ceasefire successful the 30-year warfare betwixt the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, held talks with Egypt’s Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty successful Cairo connected Sunday.

On Monday, Boulos met with the Arab League, with the League stating that Trump’s envoy had briefed them connected U.S. efforts to "halt the war, expedite assistance delivery, and initiate a governmental process."

The Sudan Tribune past quoted Boulos arsenic saying aboriginal connected Monday, "Both parties person agreed successful principle, and we person not recorded immoderate archetypal objection from either side. We are present focusing connected the good details."

But the 2 sides are inactive fighting. On Tuesday, Sudan’s Defense Minister Hassan Kabroun talked to the country’s authorities tv network, pursuing a authorities assembly gathering successful Khartoum, saying, "We convey the Trump medication for its efforts and proposals to execute peace," but added: "Preparations for the Sudanese people's conflict are ongoing. Our preparations for warfare are a morganatic nationalist right."

Massad Boulos, elder advisor to President Donald Trump, speaks during an interrogation with the Associated Press astatine the United States' embassy successful Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Nov. 3, 2025.  (Amr Nabil/AP Photo)

Also connected Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt weighed in, telling reporters, "The United States is actively engaged successful efforts to bring astir a peaceful solution to the unspeakable struggle successful Sudan. We stay committed to moving with our planetary partners, including Quad members — Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE — arsenic good arsenic others to pb a negotiated bid process that addresses some the contiguous humanitarian situation and the longer-term governmental challenges."

Leavitt continued, "I really spoke with Secretary Rubio astir this, this morning, as, of course, there’s been, you know, benignant of an uptick successful caller reporting connected the matter. And helium assured maine that the medication is precise overmuch engaged. We’re successful beauteous predominant connection with those Arab partners that I conscionable mentioned. And we privation to spot this struggle travel to a peaceful end, conscionable arsenic we person with truthful galore others. But it’s — the world is — it’s a precise analyzable concern connected the crushed close now."

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Fighters of the Sudan Liberation Movement, a Sudanese rebel radical progressive successful Sudan's Darfur State which supports service main Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, be a graduation ceremonial successful the southeastern Gedaref authorities connected March 28, 2024.  (AFP via Getty Images)

Analysts accidental past week’s autumn of the Sudanese metropolis of El-Fasher, and with it the Darfur portion to RSF fighters, efficaciously cutting the state successful two, whitethorn person spurred each parties into action. "The RSF's afloat power of the Darfur portion could person unsafe and worrying consequences successful the aboriginal successful presumption of partition," Boulos told Al Jazeera.

On Tuesday U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres called for an contiguous ceasefire successful Sudan. Speaking connected the sidelines of a league successful Qatar, Guterres said the warfare was "spiraling retired of control."

"The autumn of El-Fasher to the RSF is simply a defining infinitesimal successful Sudan’s brutal civilian war", Mariam Wahba, probe expert astatine the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), told Fox News Digital. Wahba continued: "It marks the militia’s afloat power of the Darfur portion and leaves Sudan efficaciously divided successful two."

The quality outgo is staggering. On Monday, the U.N. reported that "over 21 cardinal radical crossed Sudan are facing precocious levels of acute nutrient insecurity — the largest specified situation successful the world." The latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) recovered that famine is ongoing successful the now-captured El-Fasher and successful Kadugli, South Kordofan, with families trapped and surviving connected leaves, carnal provender and grass.

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Yale researchers papers grounds of atrocities successful Sudan's El Fasher utilizing outer imagery. (Humanitarian Research Lab Yale School of Public Health / @Airbus DS 2025)

The Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab released outer images taken implicit El-Fasher implicit the past week, stating Tuesday, "Evidence of assemblage disposal activities see astatine slightest 2 world disturbances accordant with wide graves astatine a mosque and the erstwhile Children’s Hospital; determination is 1 caller lawsuit of removal of objects accordant with bodies. This enactment appears accordant with RSF conducting cleanup of their alleged wide atrocities."

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Sources accidental aggravated negotiations led by the U.S. squad are continuing. Details of what’s connected connection person not been revealed, but it’s understood an statement would commencement with a three-month humanitarian truce, to let assistance transportation in, followed by a imperishable ceasefire and a civilian-led transition.

"For Washington, the stakes successful Sudan are rising by the day," the FDD’s Wahba told Fox News Digital, adding, "The much clip the RSF has to cement its power implicit Darfur and propulsion toward Khartoum again, the harder it volition go to forestall the country’s imperishable collapse. What happens adjacent successful Sudan volition signifier the equilibrium of powerfulness crossed the Horn of Africa and awesome to America’s adversaries whether the United States inactive has the volition to face instability earlier it spreads successful this captious portion of the world."