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Burkinabé trade unionist
Adama Touré was a Burkinabé
trade unionist . He worked as an agent at
Société Nationale d'électricité du Burkina Faso (SONABEL).
[1] As of the 1980s, he was the Secretary of the Trade Union of Technicians and Workers of Burkina (STOB, Syndicat des travailleurs et ouvriers du Burkina ) and Secretary for External Relations for the
Burkinabé Trade Union Confederation (CSB).
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[5] He was a leader of the
Patriotic League for Development (LIPAD) and a member of the Central Executive Bureau of the
African Independence Party (PAI).
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After the rift between LIPAD and the militaries in August 1984, Toure was dismissed from public service for 'defamation of the CNR' (National Revolutionary Council).
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[8] In October 1984 Toure was arrested.
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[9] He was released from detention on 3 February 1986, along with the PAI general secretary
Adama Touré .
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He was arrested on 1 June 1987, as the CNR was cracking down on LIPAD-PAI.
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He was the younger brother of CSB leader
Soumane Touré .
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Afrique contemporaine, Issues 133–136 . Documentation française, 1985. p. 64
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Unité: organe de liaison et de lutte de la C.S.B. . Confédération syndicale burkinabe, 1988. p. 13
^ Bruno Jaffré.
Burkina Faso, les années Sankara: de la Révolution à la rectification . L'Harmattan, 1989. p. 244
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Africa Report, Vol. 32 . African-American Institute, 1987. p. 13
^ Ludo Martens, Hilde Meesters.
Sankara, Compaoré et la révolution burkinabè . Editions Aden, 1989. p. 30
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Année africaine . Éditions A. Pedone., 1988. p. 294
^ Adama Abdoulaye Touré.
Une vie de militant: ma lutte du collège à la révolution de Thomas Sankara . Hamaria, 2001. p. 154
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Quarterly Economic Review of Togo, Niger, Benin, Burkina, Issue 1 . EIU, 1985. p. 21
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b James Genova.
Making New People: Politics, Cinema, and Liberation in Burkina Faso, 1983–1987 . MSU Press, 2022. pp. xi, 9–10, 15, 18–19, 51–52, 92–93, 165
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Afrique nouvelle, Issues 1902–1927 . 1986. p. 9
^ Le Monde .
Libération de M. Soumane Touré