According to reports Trump saw a video of an atrocity in Sudan and asked what he could do to stop it. Trump recently declared that he will be working on ending the slaughter in Sudan. As we read in the New York Times:

Until this week, President Trump had viewed the war in Sudan as an insoluble mess, “crazy and out of control,” and not a crisis he wanted to get involved with, as he put it.

But then a visit by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia to Washington appeared to inspire a conversion in the American president. After a briefing from the Saudi leader on Sudan’s history and culture — as well as its atrocity-filled war — Mr. Trump was sold.

“His Majesty would like me to do something very powerful having to do with Sudan,” he told a forum of business leaders on Wednesday. “We’re going to start working on it.”

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Within hours, Sudan’s military leader, Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, effusively thanked Mr. Trump and Prince Mohammed for their intended intervention — a sharp change from the general’s attitude a few days earlier, when he spurned American-led diplomacy for a truce.

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The war’s profile has risen in the past month, since the Rapid Support Forces, or R.S.F., seized El Fasher, a famine-stricken city in Darfur. Breaking an 18-month siege, R.S.F. fighters embarked on a rampage against civilians, including massacres and rape, on an enormous scale, generating global outrage.

Mr. Trump, seeing some of the atrocities on video, asked aides if there was anything he could do, a senior U.S. official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

In fact, his chief adviser on Africa, Massad Boulos, had been trying to mediate a humanitarian truce since September. But Mr. Trump’s comments about Sudan on Wednesday suggested he was only vaguely familiar with that effort and didn’t give it much hope.

Now, Mr. Trump is signaling that he is taking over. “Tremendous atrocities are taking place in Sudan,” he wrote in a lengthy post on social media. “Arab leaders from all over the world,” led by Prince Mohammed, “have asked me to use the power and influence of the presidency to bring an immediate halt to what is taking place.”