Abdul Wahid al-Nur

Abdul Wahid Mohammed al-Nur
Born1968 (age 55–56)
NationalitySudanese

Abdul Wahid Mohamed al-Nur (also Abdel Wahid el-Nur or Abdulwahid Mohammed Nour; Arabic: عبد الواحد محمد نور, ʿAbd al-Wāḥid Muḥammad Nūr; born in 1968) is the leader of the rebel Sudan Liberation Movement (al Nur) faction.[1][2]

Born in Zalingei, West Darfur, he was educated at the University of Khartoum, where he graduated in 1995 with a law degree before working as a lawyer.[3] The SLM was founded around 2001 with a decisive split in 2006 following the Darfur Peace Agreement when al-Nur refused to sign while Minni Minawi agreed to.

Life

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Abdul Wahid Mohamed al-Nur is a lawyer, born in 1968 in Zalingei, Darfur, Sudan.

He was a supporter of the Communist Party in his youth.[4]

He expressed officially, and widely, both in the Arab and Western media, his vision which is to establish a secular, liberal, democratic, and federal Sudan, where religion will be separated from the state, and the state will establish strong relationships with Israel.

Al-Nur did cooperate with the ICC and provided elements that led to the indictment of Omar al-Bashir and several of his officers. He has been in contact with Fatou Bensouda, the ICC's chief prosecutor from 2012 to 2021. Abdul Wahid Mohamed al-Nur is in favour of empowering the ICC.

Notes

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  1. ^ BBC Staff (24 February 2009) "Who are Sudan's Darfur rebels?" BBC News
  2. ^ "Darfur rebel leader condemns Nice attack". Radio Dabanga. Retrieved 2022-02-23.
  3. ^ Sudan rebel leader on limelight while President in panic Archived 2013-07-19 at the Wayback Machine, Sudan Tribune, 18 July 2008
  4. ^ https://reliefweb.int/report/sudan/darfur-armed-opposition-groups-and-coalitions
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