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Ghana’s former President, Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings has called on the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to embrace the politics of conscience, truth and the power of conviction as it seeks to return to power in 2020. The Founder of the NDC said it is important the party recognized the reasons it lost the 2016 election in order to put in place corrective measures for a positive performance in 2020. The strength of the NDC the former President said, lay in attaining political power through the power of the people, not the power of the affluent. Flt. Lt. Rawlings said the party was not unified, not in touch with the grassroots and did not inspire confidence in the electorate during the run up to the last election and called on the party to re-embrace its cores values of truth, integrity, probity and accountability. In an address read on his behalf by a leading member of the party, Samuel Nuamah Donkor at a conference organized by former NDC Municipal and District Chief Executives in...

At least 16 people were killed and dozens more injured after lightning struck a Seventh-Day Adventist church in Rwanda, a local official said Sunday. Fourteen victims were killed on the spot as lightning hit the church in the Nyaruguru District in the Southern Province on Saturday, local mayor Habitegeko Francois told  AFP  over the phone. Two others died later from their injuries, he said. He added that 140 people involved in the incident had been rushed to hospital and district health centres, but many had already been discharged. “Doctors say that only three of them are in critical condition but they are getting better,” he said. According to the mayor, a similar accident took place on Friday when lightning struck a group of 18 students, killing one of them.  theeastafricanchurch Share on: WhatsApp The post 16 killed as lightning strikes SDA church appeared first on Star Media Ghana .