President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo left Accra on Monday to go to Davos, Switzerland, for the 2024 World Economic Forum. Prof. Klaus Schwab, the World Economic Forum’s founder and executive chairman, sent him an invitation. The forum is set to happen on Tuesday, January 16 and run through Friday, January 19.
Leaders in politics, business, finance, and academics get together at the internationally renowned Davos Meeting to talk about topics that affect the whole world community.
According to the Presidency, President Akufo-Addo will fly to Kampala, Uganda, following the Davos Meeting to take part in the 2024 Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Conference, which will have as its topic “Deepening Cooperation for Shared Global Affluence.”
The Bandung Conference, which took place from April 18 to 24, 1955, and was a pivotal moment in Asian-African collaboration, is where the Non-Aligned Movement got its start. The movement, also known as the Bandung Conference, got its name from the Indonesian city of Bandung, where it was held.
President Akufo-Addo will go to Monrovia, Liberia, to witness Joseph Boakai’s inauguration as the next president of the Republic of Liberia after departing from Uganda.
The President was accompanied by representatives from the Foreign Ministry and the Presidency, as well as Shirley Ayorkor Botchway, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Ken Ofori-Atta, the Minister of Finance.
On Monday, January 22, 2024, the President will return to Ghana. In his absence, the Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, will assume his duties in compliance with Article 60(8) of the Constitution.
