Masaad Boulos, the U.S. President’s Adviser for African Affairs, announced that the United States plans to organize an international donors’ conference on Sudan in the coming weeks, as part of efforts aimed at reaching an urgent humanitarian ceasefire and mobilizing resources to address the country’s deepening crisis.
Boulos said the scale of the humanitarian catastrophe in Sudan has reached unprecedented levels, citing UNICEF estimates that 33.7 million people—among them 17.3 million children—will require humanitarian assistance this year, placing Sudan at the top of the world’s humanitarian crises.
He added that Washington is working to establish a special fund to collect donations and channel them directly toward addressing urgent humanitarian needs. He noted that U.S. President Donald Trump considers what is happening in Sudan to be “the largest humanitarian catastrophe in the world” and stresses the need to bring it to an end as quickly as possible.
On the political front, Boulos said the United States is discussing developments in the Sudanese file with its partners in the International Quad mechanism and other parties. Meanwhile, Khartoum has objected to the participation of the United Arab Emirates in the mechanism—which also includes Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the United States—calling for the adoption of its own vision for a political solution. This vision includes the withdrawal of the Rapid Support Forces from cities, their disarmament, and the convening of an internal political conference to determine the country’s future system of governance.
