As Haile Selassie’s son-in-law, Ras Desta was a prominent member of the Imperial family, dispatched on a goodwill mission in 1933 to New York, where he was greeted with a 21-gun salute, and D.C ...

Ras Desta Damtew, son-in-law of Emperor Haile Selassie and the last Abyssinian chief to remain in arms against the Italians, was captured and shot in 1937 [File: AP Photo] ...

Haile Selassie’s grandson has bought an Ethiopian shield at an auction to return the artefact to its homeland. The object, made of silver and animal hide, was stolen by British forces at the ...

Haile Selassie was Emperor of Ethiopia. His dynasty ruled for centuries, supposedly descending from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. In 1974 he was overthrown in a coup by a Marxist-Leninist ...

In 1936, Haile Selassie came to Bath in the west of England to escape Mussolini and the fascists who had invaded Ethiopia. He bought a property – Fairfield House - and moved his entire family ...