Abdul Wahid Mohamed al-Nur (also Abdel Wahid el-Nur or Abdulwahid Mohammed Nour; ar, عبد الواحد محمد نور, ''ʿAbd al-Wāḥid Muḥammad Nūr''; born in 1968) is the leader of the rebel
Sudan Liberation Movement (al Nur) faction.
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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.[Sudan rebel leader on limelight while President in panic]
, ''Sudan Tribune'', 18 July 2008 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
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He was an adherent of the Communist Party in his youth,[https://reliefweb.int/report/sudan/darfur-armed-opposition-groups-and-coalitions].
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.
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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
", by al Nur
* Video
"An Israeli Embassy in Khartoum Will Serve the Interests of the Sudanese People".
* The SLM should take power in Sud
1968 births
Living people
Sudanese rebels
University of Khartoum alumni
People of the Sudanese civil war (2023–present)
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Sudanese communists