Abdul Wahid al-Nur

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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
Born1968 (age 55–56)
NationalitySudanese

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] In June 1992, al Nur and others at the University of Khartoum created the Sudan Liberation Movement to liberate Sudan from Islamic National Front.[3]

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Abdul Wahid Mohamed al-Nur is a lawyer, born in 1968 in Zalingei, Darfur, Sudan.

An adherent of the Communist Party in his youth,[4] he founded the SLM in 1992, in response to the violence perpetrated by Government of Omar al-Bashir.[citation needed]

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 (every weekly speech since 2007 and until today in 2020).[citation needed]

This has been widely published on Reuters, AFP, and Wall Street Journal, but also on Arab media (many interviews on Al Djazira, articles on Sudan Tribune, and all the Arab media). Because of this stance, the people of Sudan came to realize that Islam radicalism is a radical enemy of Africans, while Israel could be a stable ally to secure all the region.[citation needed]

He made these statements at a time when it was considered a crime in Sudan, and he paid the heavy price of blood as Omar al-Bashir and General Burhan, in return, ordered the destruction of 5,000 villages in Darfur, the mass killing and deportation of half a million people. Yet, M. EL NUR did not change his speech in favour of Israel, in return he made it even stronger and developed it all over Sudan.[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, yet he disagrees with the potential indictment of the State of Israel and uses his influence on the ICC to block it.[citation needed]

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  1. ^ BBC Staff (24 February 2009) "Who are Sudan's Darfur rebels?" BBC News
  2. ^ "Darfur rebel leader condemns Nice attack". Radio Dabanga. Retrieved 2022-02-23.
  3. ^ a b Sudan rebel leader on limelight while President in panic Archived 2013-07-19 at the Wayback Machine, Sudan Tribune, 18 July 2008
  4. ^ https://reliefweb.int/report/sudan/darfur-armed-opposition-groups-and-coalitions

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