Abdul Wahid al-Nur

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.^[1][2]

Abdul Wahid Mohammed al-Nur
Personal details
Born	(1968-01-01) 1 January 1968 (age 57) Zalingei, Central Darfur, Sudan
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) Darfur campaign

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.^[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

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.^[4] 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.^[5]

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.^{[citation needed]}

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.