President John Dramani Mahama is set to lead the first Davos convening of the Accra Reset on January 22, on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting.
The high-level engagement will bring together African and Global South leaders to discuss new approaches to international cooperation amid growing global challenges.
President Mahama chairs the Presidential Council of the Accra Reset, a Global South–led initiative aimed at strengthening sovereign capacity and rethinking international cooperation in a rapidly changing world.
Other members of the Presidential Council expected at the meeting include President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi of Egypt, President William Samoei Ruto of Kenya, and President Felix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Nigeria will be represented by Vice President Kashim Shettima, while Prime Minister James Marape will attend on behalf of Papua New Guinea.
The Davos meeting will also feature several former Heads of State, including President Olusegun Obasanjo, Rt. Hon. Helen Clark, President Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, and President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, who together form the Guardians Circle of the Accra Reset.
The gathering will formally launch priority programmes following the initiative’s unveiling at the 2025 United Nations General Assembly and its subsequent endorsement at the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Johannesburg.
According to the organisers, the Accra Reset comes at a critical moment marked by intensifying great-power rivalries, the erosion of the traditional global aid model, rising trade tensions, and overlapping crises such as climate shocks, cost-of-living pressures, pandemics, and conflicts.
The initiative seeks to position countries of the Global South to respond more effectively to these interconnected challenges.
President Mahama has described the Accra Reset as complementary to his domestic reform agenda, the Resetting Ghana Agenda, stressing the link between national transformation and global equity.
“Effective national governance requires both internal reforms and a more equitable international system,” he has consistently argued.
In a statement issued by the Minister for Government Communications and Presidential Spokesperson, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, the President reaffirmed that sovereignty “means the capacity to execute national visions while building strategic partnerships, particularly within Africa and across the Global South, that advance mutual interests.”
