The Vice‑President, Jane Naana Opoku‑Agyemang, has called for stronger African representation on the United Nations Security Council, describing global governance as unbalanced.

Speaking at the Oxford Africa Conference 2026, she emphasised that limited representation and costly borrowing continue to constrain development in many developing countries.

“The continued absent of many of meaningful African representations within key global decisions structures particularly the United Nations Security Council.

"Remains a source of growing imbalance between the distribution of global power and the structures through which that power is exercised, but legitimacy is shifting beyond representation it is also shift by outcomes,” she stated.

She added that across much of the developing world governments continue to operate within significant structural constraints, citing high borrowing costs, death burdens and unequal access to finance.

She noted that these conditions affect the ability to deliver growth, stability and opportunities at the scale that citizens expect, adding that institutions, national and international alike, can adapt quickly enough to remain credible and bring about accelerated change while serving the people.

She stressed that if institutions and democracy are to remain legitimate, they must be responsible to contemporary reality.

“In this much of the developing world, government continue to operate within significant structural constraints, high borrowing costs, death burdens and unequal access to finance.

“These conditions affect the ability to deliver growth stability and opportunities of the scale that citizens increasingly expect, this is one of the defining governance questions of our time whether institutions, national and international alike can adapt quickly enough to remain credible,” she said.