Adama Touré was a Burkinabé

trade union A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages ...

ist. He worked as an agent at Société Nationale d'électricité du Burkina Faso (SONABEL). 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).Ludo Martens, Hilde Meesters.
Sankara, Compaoré et la révolution burkinabè
'. Editions Aden, 1989. p. 30 He was a leader of the

Patriotic League for Development Patriotic League for Development (, LIPAD) was an open mass front of the African Independence Party (PAI) in Burkina Faso. LIPAD was founded in September 1973 and was led by Hama Arba Diallo. The militants of LIPAD were generally called ''lipadist ...

(LIPAD) and a member of the Central Executive Bureau of the

African Independence Party The African Independence Party (, PAI) was a communist party in French West Africa (AOF). PAI was founded in Thiès, Senegal in 1957. Later as AOF was dissolved into independent countries the local PAI sections became independent parties, often ke ...

(PAI). 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).
Quarterly Economic Review of Togo, Niger, Benin, Burkina, Issue 1
'. EIU, 1985. p. 21 In October 1984 Toure was arrested. He was released from detention on 3 February 1986, along with the PAI general secretary Adama Touré. He was arrested on 1 June 1987, as the CNR was cracking down on LIPAD-PAI.
Unité: organe de liaison et de lutte de la C.S.B.
'. Confédération syndicale burkinabe, 1988. p. 13 He was the younger brother of CSB leader

Soumane Touré Soumane Touré (14 March 1948 – 25 March 2021) was a Burkinabé politician and trade unionist. He was a prominent student activist during his youth and joined the communist African Independence Party (PAI). He served as the general secretary ...

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