Sidya Touré

Touré was born at Dimbokro in French West Africa, worked as a treasury inspector, and spent a period in exile in Côte d'Ivoire. ^{1 2} Regarded as a reform-minded technocrat, he was appointed prime minister by President Lansana Conté on 9 July 1996, becoming Guinea's first prime minister since 1984, after a coup attempt had shaken the regime. ³ When Conté changed course, Touré was dismissed on 8 March 1999 and succeeded by Lamine Sidimé. ³

Touré became an opposition leader and president of the UFR. ³ He joined the boycott of the 2003 presidential election, was detained and charged with plotting against the government in 2004, and was cleared on appeal. ³ On 28 September 2009 he took part in the great opposition protest in Conakry; soldiers opened fire on the protesters, Touré suffered a serious head injury, and from a hospital bathroom he covertly telephoned the BBC to give his account. ³ Standing for the UFR in the 2010 presidential election, he placed third with 13.62% of the vote, accepted the confirmed result, and was courted as a potential kingmaker for the runoff; in September 2021 he returned to Guinea after ten months of exile in Europe. ³

Sidya Touré died at a hospital in Paris on 25 September 2026, at the age of 81; the French article records that he was buried at the Williamsville cemetery in Côte d'Ivoire, and Jeune Afrique's obituary described him as an eternal opponent who died in exile. ^{3 1 2}

No article text in any language consulted says anything about Touré's religion; only the French article's infobox names Islam, and Wikidata carries no religion value, so the museum records his faith as unknown and preserves the infobox reading in the data file. ^{1 2} The Arabic article, revised on 4 October 2026, does not yet record his death. ⁴

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