I enjoyed the music, the warmth of the people and the sense of community. I was not just "stuck" in Ghana any more - I was thriving.
Future phases later this year will cover the care sector, test-and-trace, the impact on children, and the economy.The company has built a large industrial plant on its site in Llantrisant in Wales to remove the precious metal from old circuit boards.
The gold is initially being used to craft jewellery and later it will be made into commemorative coins.E-waste, which includes anything from old phones and computers to TVs, is a rapidly growing problem - the UN says 62m tonnes were thrown away in 2022.estimates that the mountain of discarded tech is set to increase by about a third by 2030.
At the Royal Mint plant, piles of circuit boards are being fed into the new facility.First, they are heated to remove their various components. Then the array of detached coils, capacitors, pins and transistors are sieved, sorted, sliced and diced as they move along a conveyor belt.
Anything with gold in it is set aside.
“What we're doing here is urban mining,” says head of sustainability Inga Doak.Mahama noted that his stay in Russia, then part of the Soviet Union, alerted him to "the imperfections of the socialist system".
After returning to Ghana in 1996, Mahama followed his father's footsteps into politics.He was elected as a Member of Parliament for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) party and from there, scaled the political ranks. He zeroed in on the NDC's messaging, taking up roles as the parliamentary spokesperson and minister for communication.
In 13 years, Mahama worked his way up to become vice-president, second-in-command under President John Atta Mills.But after just three years in office, Mills died unexpectedly at the age of 68.