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Catholic radio shut for announcing memorial mass for late president

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    A radio station owned by the Catholic Church was sealed off by the authorities in Togo on Saturday after it announced that a memorial mass would be held for Sylanus Olympio, the country’s first president, killed in a coup on 13 January 1963, the Missionary News Agency (MISNA) reported. MISNA said Jeunesse espoir radio of the Mission of Tabligbo, based in the Diocese of Aneho in southern Togo, was closed indefinitely by soldiers sent by the local prefecture. President Gnassingbe Eyadema led the 1963 putsch which first brought Nicholas Gruznitsky to power as prime minister. Eyadema sacked Gruznitsky in 1967, effectively seizing power for himself.

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