Abdul Wahid Mohamed al-Nur (also Abdel Wahid el-Nur or Abdulwahid Mohammed Nour; , ÿAbd al-WÃÂḥid Muḥammad Nà «r; born in 1968) is the leader of the rebel Sudan Liberation Movement (al Nur) faction.
A Zaghawa 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. 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.
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. 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.
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.
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. Al-Nur is in favour of empowering the ICC.