President Donald J. Trump
c/o Mar-a-Lago Club
1100 South Ocean Blvd.
Palm Beach, FL 33480
RE: The Golden Opportunity for Peace and Prosperity in Sudan
Dear President Trump,
Your determination to achieve peace is noble and already bearing fruit. However, nowhere is peace needed more than in Sudan. More people die each day in Sudan than in Gaza and Ukraine combined. Nowhere is famine more rampant than Sudan. Children are starving to death. See the enclosed photos of starving Sudanese men, women and children, taken by Samaritan’s Purse staff and presented by Ken Isaacs, Vice President of Samaritan’s Purse, as part of his testimony to Congress on May 22, 2025. Since then, the situation has only gotten worse.
Given your close relationship with the Gulf States and others in the region, you are in a unique position to achieve peace in Sudan, because the UAE, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar and others (particularly Iran) are fueling the war in Sudan by arming and supporting the warring parties.
There are two crucial steps you can take to achieve peace, save lives and allow the Sudanese people to take back control of their country in order to advance prosperity. The first is to pressure the Gulf States to stop fueling the war and instead help force the warring parties to end the conflict. A strong word from you personally would make a big difference. The second is to urgently fund humanitarian aid for Sudan and encourage other countries to follow your lead. Sudan’s population is 46.8 million and 30.4 million are in grave need because of this man-made crisis.
The United States has been a longtime friend of the people of Sudan, and the U.S. is strategically positioned to partner with the people of Sudan to create a peaceful, stable, and prosperous Sudan that simultaneously serves U.S. security and economic interests.
Located on the Red Sea and with the Nile River running through the country, Sudan is strategically important to its neighbors and to international trade and shipping. Sudan is rich in natural resources, such as gold, minerals, gum Arabic, fertile lands. Sudan, in the wrong hands, has proven dangerous to U.S. interests, as we saw with the former Islamist regime under Bashir, which hosted Osama Bin Laden and committed many acts of terrorism internally and externally over a thirty-year period. Islamist forces are backing the current war resulting a serious risk that Islamists may return to power.
President Trump, your predecessors in the White House half-heartedly addressed Sudan. You now have a golden opportunity, by personally engaging, to dramatically change the trajectory of Sudan and the region.
Respectfully,
Eric Cohen
Co-Founder, Act for Sudan
