Abdul Wahid al-Nur
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 | .svg.png){kind=small} 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) |
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]
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.
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.
Notes
- ↑ https://slma.net/en/report-from-civil-authority-of-the-sudan-liberation-movement-liberated-territories-tawila/
- ↑ https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature/2021/4/21/inside-darfurs-rebel-held-mountains
- 1 2 "Wayback Machine" (PDF). www.smallarmssurvey.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-06-25. Retrieved 2025-10-13.
{{cite web}}: Cite uses generic title (help) - ↑ BBC Staff (24 February 2009) "Who are Sudan's Darfur rebels?" BBC News
- ↑ "Darfur rebel leader condemns Nice attack". Radio Dabanga. Retrieved 2022-02-23.
- ↑ Sudan rebel leader on limelight while President in panic Archived 2013-07-19 at the Wayback Machine, Sudan Tribune, 18 July 2008
- ↑ https://reliefweb.int/report/sudan/darfur-armed-opposition-groups-and-coalitions
- ↑ "SCP signs agreement with SPLM-N Al-Hilu and SLM Al-Nur". Radio Tamazuj. 23 May 2022. Archived from the original on 30 December 2023. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
- ↑ https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/sudan-communist-party-and-slm-aw-sign-agreement-in-juba
External links
- Abdel Wahid Al-Nur, "Why We Won't Talk to Sudan's Islamo-Fascists", The Wall Street Journal, June 18, 2008
- "SLM statement on the secular state Archived 2007-01-04 at the Wayback Machine", by al Nur
- Video: Al Nur Supports Relations with Israel: "An Israeli Embassy in Khartoum Will Serve the Interests of the Sudanese People".
- The SLM should take power in Sudan