Abdul Wahid Mohammed al-Nur | |
|---|---|
| Leader of theSudan Liberation Movement (al-Nur)[2][1] | |
| Assumed office 2006[1] | |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1968-01-01)1 January 1968 (age 58) |
| 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) |
Abdul Wahid Mohamed al-Nur (alsoAbdel Wahid el-Nur orAbdulwahid Mohammed Nour;Arabic:عبد الواحد محمد نور,ʿAbd al-Wāḥid Muḥammad Nūr; born in 1968) is the leader of the rebelSudan Liberation Movement (al Nur) faction.[3][4]
AZaghawa born inZalingei,West Darfur, he was educated at theUniversity of Khartoum, where he graduated in 1995 with alaw degree before working as alawyer.[5] The SLM was founded around 2001 with a decisive split in 2006 following theDarfur Peace Agreement when al-Nur refused to sign whileMinni Minawi agreed to.
Abdul Wahid Mohamed al-Nur is a lawyer, born in 1968 inZalingei,Darfur,Sudan.
He was a supporter of theCommunist Party in his youth.[6] And following the start of the currentSudanese civil war, allied again with the Communist Party by having SLM-al Nur signing a revolutionary charter with the Party.[7][8]
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 did cooperate with the ICC and provided elements that led to the indictment ofOmar al-Bashir and several of his officers. He has been in contact withFatou Bensouda, the ICC's chief prosecutor from 2012 to 2021. Al-Nur is in favour of empowering the ICC.
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