Ethiopia has secured a commitment from Britain to repatriate the remains of Emperor Tewodros II, a statement from its embassy in London confirmed on Monday.
South Africans on Monday are observing the 29th anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s release from Victor Verster Prison in Cape Town that ended 27 years of his imprisonment under the defunct apartheid regime which ended in 1994.
The African Union has finalized preparations to unveil a commemorative statue of late emperor Haile Selassie in Addis Ababa, a spokesman of the Ethiopian government said on Friday.