Ethiopia seeks to bring its long lost prince home from Britain

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ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — Ethiopia has never forgotten its boy prince, captured by the British Army and taken to England where he died more than a century ago, a lonely, royal orphan and curiosity who still lies entombed in Windsor Castle.

As the country approaches millennium celebrations, officials in Addis Ababa have stepped up a push to have the remains of Prince Alemayehu repatriated.

"There is no way that this generation would allow for an Ethiopian prince and a prisoner of war to remain on foreign land as we close the second millennium," said Mulugeta Asarate, vice president of Ethiopia's millennium committee.

Because Ethiopia follows its own "Ethiopic" calender, this ancient land on the Horn of Africa, one of the first kingdoms to adopt Christianity, will...