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AFROMET

Petition sent to Westminster Abbey

2007-07-17T14:14:11+00:00

Petition 17 July 2007PETITION IN SUPPORT OF THE CAMPAIGN FOR THE RETURN OF ETHIOPIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH 'TABOT' - HOLY ALTAR SLAB, ON THE OCCASION OF THE COMING ETHIOPIAN MILLENNIUM...

Appeal sent to 10 Downing Street

2007-06-17T14:35:43+00:00

Letter 17 June 07Letter sent to British Prime Minister Tony Blair by Gabriel Berhanu Kassayie and friends from Year 5, Rosary RC Primary School...

Joy as stolen objects are returned to Africa

2005-05-05T15:14:31+00:00

Socialist Worker 05 May 05The return to Ethiopia of historic objects stolen by fascist Italy reminds us of the imperialist crimes that scar Africa's past, writes John McLuckie...

University criticised for keeping looted manuscripts

2005-03-01T10:04:56+00:00

The Scotsman 01 March 05A DECISION by the University of Edinburgh court not to return looted manuscripts to Ethiopia was yesterday condemned as a "retrograde step" by a lobby group....

University refuses to return Ethiopian artefacts

2005-03-01T09:52:39+00:00

The Herald 01 March 05CAMPAIGNERS fighting for the repatriation of scores of treasures looted by British soldiers from Ethiopia more than a century ago have been dealt a blow by academics in Scotland....

University of Edinburgh announces decision on AFROMET request

2005-02-28T10:12:08+00:00

University of Edinburgh press release 28 February 05 The University of Edinburgh Court, the governing body of the University, today announced that after careful consideration, it is at this time unable to meet the request made by the organisation AFROMET...

British Plunder Returned to Ethiopia

2005-02-10T08:25:36+00:00

AP 10 February 05Two sacred paintings have been returned to Ethiopia 137 years after they were ripped out of a holy book by invading British troops....

AFROMET motion launched in UK Parliament

2005-01-21T12:17:16+00:00

AFROMET press release 21 January 05AFROMET has taken its campaign to the UK Parliament's House of Commons. AFROMET supporter and British Member of Parliament Derek Wyatt has put down a motion calling on the British Museum to return a number...

AFROMET sets out Edinburgh case

2004-11-29T10:10:01+00:00

AFROMET press release 29 November 04AFROMET today set out its case for the return of five sacred Ethiopian manuscripts currently kept in the library of Edinburgh University, Scotland. The campaign group sent its statement to the first meeting of a...

Italy Prepares to Return Prized Ethiopian Obelisk

2004-11-06T09:53:12+00:00

Reuters 06 November 04Italy finally looks set to heal a feud with Ethiopia by returning one of its most cherished relics, the obelisk of Axum, taken by fascist invaders almost 70 years ago....

British Museum eases grip on religious treasures

2004-10-20T09:57:13+00:00

The Independent/The NZ Herald 20 October 04On a shelf in a locked basement room underneath the British Museum are kept 11 wooden tablets which are covered in purple velvet. No member of the museum staff - including director Neil MacGregor...

Point of no return

2004-10-07T15:23:07+00:00

The Economist 07 October 04IT IS a poor country with a rich history. Through force and unfair dealing, many of Ethiopia's historical relics have left the country. Ethiopians want to bring them home, not just to celebrate their past, but...

Blair urged to return treasures

2004-10-07T10:00:35+00:00

BBC 07 October 04Ethiopian campaigners have asked UK Prime Minister Tony Blair to return hundreds of rare manuscripts and religious artefacts. The treasures were looted from the palace of an Ethiopian emperor, after his defeat by a British force in...

Obelisk protests planned

2004-09-06T10:54:29+00:00

AFROMET press release 06 September 04Afromet supporters in the UK and the USA have been invited to take part in demonstrations to press the Italian government to return the obelisk that Mussolini removed from Axum, northern Ethiopia, in 1937....

Politicians back AFROMET's Edinburgh appeal

2004-06-30T06:40:17+00:00

AFROMET press release 30 June 04Two of Ethiopia's most senior politicians today threw their weight behind a campaign to persuade Edinburgh University to return five stolen sacred manuscripts. Teshome Toga, Ethiopian Minister of Youth Sports and Culture, and Dawit Yohannes,...

2007-07-17T14:14:11+00:00

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