President Mahama to lead 'Accra Reset' session at World Economic Forum

President of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama, is set to lead the first Davos convening of the Accra Reset on January 22, 2026 on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting.

The high-level engagement will bring together leaders from Africa and the Global South to discuss new approaches to international cooperation amid growing global challenges.

The initiative aims to strengthen sovereign capacity and rethink international cooperation in response to rapidly changing global economic conditions.

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 Félix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Nigeria will be represented by Vice President Kashim Shettima, while Prime Minister James Marape will attend on behalf of Papua New Guinea.

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.”



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