President John Dramani Mahama is set to chair the first Davos convening of the Accra Reset on January 22, on the margins of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting.
The high-level engagement will bring together leaders from Africa and the wider Global South to explore new approaches to international cooperation at a time of increasing global uncertainty and interconnected challenges.
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.”
President Mahama chairs the Presidential Council of the Accra Reset, a Global South–led initiative designed to strengthen sovereign capacity and rethink existing models of international cooperation in response to a rapidly changing global environment.
Other members of the Presidential Council expected to participate include 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 Prime Minister James Marape will attend on behalf of Papua New Guinea.
The meeting will also feature several former heads of state who serve as members of the Accra Reset’s Guardians Circle, including former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, former New Zealand Prime Minister Rt. Hon. Helen Clark, former Mauritian President Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, and former Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf.
The Davos gathering will formally launch the initiative’s priority programmes following its unveiling at the 2025 United Nations General Assembly and subsequent endorsement at the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Johannesburg.
According to organisers, the Accra Reset is being introduced at a critical moment marked by intensifying great-power rivalries, the weakening of traditional global aid frameworks, rising trade tensions, and multiple overlapping crises, including climate shocks, cost-of-living pressures, pandemics, and armed conflicts.
The initiative aims to better position countries of the Global South to respond collectively and more effectively to these challenges.
President Mahama has described the Accra Reset as complementary to his domestic reform agenda, the Resetting Ghana Agenda, underscoring the link between national transformation and global equity.
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