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Current AffairsAmbassador for a Day - Czech young people in the EU
On Monday, both Foreign Minister Cyril Svoboda and Deputy Prime Minister
Jiri Havel received visitors from the British Embassy, but on this
occasion their guests were somewhat younger than you might perhaps expect
from ambassadorial visitors. They were in fact the two 18 year old winners
of the "Ambassador for a Day" essay writing competition, which
was organised by the British Embassy in Prague to encourage young people
in the Czech Republic to take an interest in European diplomacy. Yet
despite their youth, the two winners had no less of a passion for
politics.
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Current AffairsCzech experts help build fish-breeding ponds in Africa
"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and
you feed him for a lifetime" - says a famous Chinese proverb. But the
second part of the saying may no longer be true due to a worldwide decline
in fish stocks. So it may be more appropriate to say that you will feed a
man for a lifetime if you teach him to breed fish. And precisely that is
the aim of an international experiment going on in East Africa in which
Czech experts are participating.
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Current AffairsFighting borrowed prejudices about Africa
The African community in the Czech Republic today amounts to about 3,000
people. It has been shrinking since the fall of the communist regime when
many scholarships were offered to students from African countries. Even
today the community consists mainly of former students who have settled
down here. Now the Czech Republic's joining the EU has brought new changes
and not just for the better, according to Kofi A Nkrumah from the
organisation Humanitas Afrika in Prague. He spoke to Jarka Halkova, at an
forum in Prague in celebration of the Czech Republic's first ever
"Black History Month".
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