Abdul Wahid al-Nur
Sudanese rebel and politician (born 1968)
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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.[4][5]
Abdul Wahid Mohammed al-Nur | |
|---|---|
| Chairman of the Liberated Areas[1] | |
| Assumed office c. March 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Leader of the Sudan Liberation Movement (al-Nur)[2][3] | |
| Assumed office 2006[3] | |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1 January 1968 |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  SLM (al-Nur) (2006–present) |
Years of service | 2006–present |
| Commands | Head of the SLM al-Nur |
| Battles/wars | War in Darfur South Sudanese civil war Sudanese civil war (2023–present) |
A Zaghawa 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.[6] 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
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.[7] And following the start of the current Sudanese civil war, allied again with the Communist Party by having SLM-al Nur signing a revolutionary charter with the Party.[8][9]
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.[citation needed]
Al-Nur cooperated with the International Criminal Court 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. Al-Nur is in favour of empowering the ICC.
