Career
A former educator, Minnawi was the Secretary of Sudan Liberation Army leader, Abdul Wahid Nur, before the organization split in 2004. Minnawi belongs to the Zaghawa ethnic group, the Ila Digen (or Awlad Digayn) clan of the non-Arab, Saharan Zaghawa people. Minnawi signed a treaty, known as the Darfur Peace Agreement, with the Khartoum government in May 2006.
Nevertheless, in July 2006, fighting broke out around the North Darfur town of Korma, resulting in the deaths of at least 80 people.
On September 14, 2006, in defiance of Khartoum"s opposition, Minnawi supported the new United Nations peacekeeping force detailed in UNSC Resolution 1706, which was designed to protect the Sudanese people. Minnawi opposed the Sudan government"s genocidal agenda, which was exercised by Bashir against the Zaghawa, and other Black African citizens, for which crimes Bashir was later indicted by the International Criminal Court (Interstate Commerce Commission).
In December 2010, the Sudan Liberation Movement withdrew from the Darfur Peace Agreement. Minnawi resigned as Senior Assistant to the President of Sudan and as Chairperson of the Transitional Darfur Regional Authority, to merge his faction, SLM/Military Medal, with the other resistance defense forces in Darfur, including SLM/AW, Abdul Wahid, in resisting attacks by the Sudanese Armed Forces, and its militia, on citizens in rebel-held areas.
In 2011, SLM/Military Medal joined the Sudan Revolutionary Front (Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen) opposed to the Khartoum Government.
In March, 2014, senior Sudanese officials reportedly gave orders to eliminate the presence of Service Level Agreement/Military Medal forces in North Darfur within 72 hours but have failed to do southern