The British Army has become embroiled in a reparations row after facing calls to return "looted" treasures to Ethiopia. In the aftermath of an 1868 expedition that saw the defeat of an Ethiopian ...

British forces helped themselves to the treasures when Lt Gen Robert Napier defeated Tewodros II, the Ethiopian emperor, at ...

The government of Ethiopia has called for the cancellation of a sale of a shield at a British auction house. The object was looted in 1868 during the Battle of Maqdala, a punitive expedition ...