Country's president Joseph Kabila made the announcement ahead of opening of revamped Africa Museum outside Brussels

The Los Angeles institution counters that it will keep on fighting to maintain the linchpin of its collection

Technological wizardry in replication is improving, alongside claims to relocate far-flung treasures

How artists fight persecution is explored with the artist and author of the Hare with Amber Eyes and Krzysztof Gil, who describes the chilling history of "Roma hunting". Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.

Statements come just days after the release of a controversial French report on the restitution of African artefacts

Getting around the inalienability of public collections is dealt with in the report—but it might not work legally and practically

The French academics Bénédicte Savoy and Felwine Sarr urge President Macron to return African artefacts. But does the report go too far, or not far enough?

Announcement comes after controversial report urged the president to return works taken “without consent” in the colonial period

Major conference in Berlin this week marks anniversary of landmark agreement

A new report on the status of African objects in French museums will urge the president to return works taken “without consent” in the colonial period

Auctioneer Frank Hargesheimer compensates consignor, sees “moral duty” to restitute art lost due to Nazi persecution

Painting of apple trees is pulled from exhibition after admission that its restitution was a mistake

The paintings restituted to family of Alfred Flechtheim carry top estimates of $20m each

Piece depicting a Persian soldier was seized last year at Tefaf New York

Shipping company executive S. Vijay Kumar was responsible for recovering a Buddha stolen from India 57 years ago among many other looted works

The original owner, Alfred Flechtheim, fled the Nazis in 1933 after a stream of anti-Semitic attacks

The work, seized by the pro-Nazi Vichy government, had been lent to an exhibition at the Musée Marmottan

“It shouldn’t be entirely up to us,” says Daniel Birnbaum, the director of Stockholm’s Moderna Museet, which recently restituted a Kokoschka painting

The Italian state has a permanent right to confiscate illegally exported work

Granddaughter of Jewish collector flies in for restitution ceremony

The 1910 portrait of a marquis was sold by Alfred Flechtheim’s employee after the dealer fled Nazi Germany

Marei von Saher asks an appeals court in California to reconsider her case against the Norton Simon Museum

New book exploring work's provenance is a must-read for those interested in the contentious field of art restitution

The events that led up to the ruling in favour of the Norton Simon Museum after it was sued by the heir of Dutch dealer Jacques Goudstikker over ownership of the paintings

Decision should put decade-long legal battle between museum and heirs of art dealer Jacques Goudstikker "to rest"

The museum stands by its ownership of The Actor, which it says was never in the hands of Nazis

The preserved head was held in Cologne's Rautenstrauch Joest Museum of world cultures for 110 years

Lawyers for the Prussian Cultural Foundation argued that it was not “genocide” when the objects were sold in 1935

Congolese-born art collector Sindika Dokolo says this "long-neglected historical wrong" is finally being addressed—but more can be done

Sacred object taken by British troops in the 19th century is concealed inside an altar