WASHINGTON (CBS NEWS) — Sources from CBS say President Trump said the U.S. is getting involved in efforts to strike a peace in Sudan amid an ongoing civil war there, at the request of his “very good friend” Mohammad bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia.

Mr. Trump made the announcement on Wednesday as he spoke at the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum at the Kennedy Center in Washington, one day after a lengthy meeting with the crown prince, known as MBS, in the Oval Office. The State Department has already said the U.S. has been working with international partners, including Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates, to broker an end to the war, but the president said he views the situation “differently now than I did just a day ago.”

The people of Sudan are suffering from a sta

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