Gabon has filed a separate court case for the handling of stolen goods, accusing Mr Fournier’s ancestor of having stolen the Ngil mask and therefore never being its rightful owner, Olivia Betoe ...

The transitional government of Gabon, which underwent a military coup d’état in August, has begun a legal battle for the restitution of an antique mask that last sold for €4.2 million ($4.4 ...

A photograph taken on 24 March 2022 shows a carved wooden mask made by the Fang people of Gabon. One of only a dozen surviving examples in the world, it was sold at auction in southern France that ...

Gabon: Two killed during ... Prosecutor Andre Patrick Roponat said “people wearing ski masks in a car had opened fire”. Gabon has moved up a curfew and blocked movement in and out of ...

French dealer sued for buying African mask ‘rarer than da Vinci painting’ for £130 and selling it for £3.7m. Gabon’s government demands rare artefact of ancestors be returned home: ‘This ...

Gabon has filed a separate court case for the handling of stolen goods, accusing Mr Fournier’s ancestor of having stolen the Ngil mask and therefore never being its rightful owner, Olivia Betoe ...

Authorities in Gabon have launched a legal battle to get back a precious wooden mask used in secret ceremonies by the Fang ethnic group, which was brought to France in colonial times and sold at ...