Abdul Wahid al-Nur
Abdul Wahid Mohammed al-Nur | |
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| Born | 1968 (age 55–56) |
| Nationality | Sudanese |
Abdul Wahid Mohamed al-Nur(alsoAbdel Wahid el-NurorAbdulwahid 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.[1][2]
Born inZalingei,West Darfur,he was educated at theUniversity 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
[edit]Abdul Wahid Mohamed al-Nur is a lawyer, born in 1968 inZalingei,Darfur,Sudan.
He was a supporter of theCommunist Partyin 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 withFatou Bensouda,the ICC's chief prosecutor from 2012 to 2021. Abdul Wahid Mohamed al-Nur is in favour of empowering the ICC.
Notes
[edit]- ^BBC Staff (24 February 2009) "Who are Sudan's Darfur rebels?"BBC News
- ^"Darfur rebel leader condemns Nice attack".Radio Dabanga.Retrieved2022-02-23.
- ^Sudan rebel leader on limelight while President in panicArchived2013-07-19 at theWayback Machine,Sudan Tribune,18 July 2008
- ^https://reliefweb.int/report/sudan/darfur-armed-opposition-groups-and-coalitions
External links
[edit]- 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 stateArchived2007-01-04 at theWayback 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[1]
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