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President John Mahama is set to address global political and business leaders today at the World Economic Forum in Davos, as he leads discussions on the Accra Reset initiative at a high-level side event on the margins of the annual meeting.
The President will participate in the first Davos convening of the Accra Reset on Thursday, January 22, bringing the Global South–led initiative to one of the world’s most influential policy platforms.
In a statement issued by the Presidential Spokesman and Minister of State in charge of Government Communications, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, President Mahama is described as leading the Presidential Council of the Accra Reset, an initiative aimed at strengthening sovereign capacity and reimagining international cooperation amid growing global uncertainty.
The statement said the meeting will be attended by fellow members of the Presidential Council, including President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi of Egypt, President William Samoei Ruto of Kenya, and President Félix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Nigeria will be represented by Vice President Kashim Shettima, while Papua New Guinea will be represented by Prime Minister James Marape.
Former Heads of State and Government will also participate, including former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark, former Mauritian President Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, and former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. They form the Guardians Circle of the Accra Reset.
According to the statement, the Davos meeting will formally launch priority programmes under the initiative, following its introduction at the 2025 United Nations General Assembly and its endorsement at the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Johannesburg.
The Accra Reset, the statement noted, comes at a time of intensifying great-power rivalries, the breakdown of traditional global aid frameworks, rising trade tensions, and multiple overlapping crises, including climate shocks, cost-of-living pressures, pandemics, and conflicts.
President Mahama considers the Accra Reset as complementary to his domestic reform programme, the Resetting Ghana Agenda, the statement said.
It added that Ghana, as a founding member, recognises that effective national governance depends not only on internal reforms but also on a fairer and more balanced international system.
The statement said President Mahama has consistently argued that sovereignty is about the capacity to implement national development visions while building strategic partnerships, especially within Africa and across the Global South, to advance shared interests.
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