During the rains in mid-year the RSF launched attacks on the city destroying houses markets and clinics and thousands of residents fled to areas protected by ostensibly neutral armed groups such as the Sudan Liberation Army led by Abdel Wahid al Nur...
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Some of the civilians go to the area controlled by the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM-Nur) faction of Abdel Wahid al Nur in Tawila while others try to get closer to the Chad border despite the danger from armed thugs assaulting civilians and looting livestock and property...
Despite some incidents the SLM-Abdel Wahid al-Nur shares the same position...
Some sceptical observers wonder whether Abdel Wahid al-Nur's group may be involved with Hemeti's gold trading empire...
Other groups are joining the likely fray such as Youssif Karjakola a senior military commander and chief of staff of the SLA-Abdel Wahid al Nur who arrived on 26 November in El Fasher to protect IDP camps...
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Refusal to signThe European Union the United Nations Qatar Egypt and the African Union were all guarantors of the peace agreement but – beyond the problems with the TPC – it has also suffered from the refusal by two important rebel groups to sign up to it: the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North led by Abdel Aziz el Hilu and based in the Nuba mountains; and the Sudan Liberation Army in the Jebel Marra in Darfur and headed by Abdel Wahid al Nur (see Box The players at the Juba peace talks)...
Sudan Liberation Army: SLA leader Abdel Wahid al Nur based in Darfur's Jebel Marra continues to be known as 'Dr No' for his refusal to take part in the peace talks despite being encouraged by France...
Abdel Wahid al Nur eponymous leader of the SLM-AW who has lived in Paris for years says he will negotiate only when Khartoum has a civilian government (AC Vol 59 No 12 Offensives and reshuffles)...
Despite recent clashes between government forces and fighters of the Sudan Liberation Movement-Abdel Wahid Al-Nur (SLM-AW) the UN and AU describe security in Darfur as 'relatively stable'...