Below is a schedule of successful restitutions made by Belgium to a country or community of source, together with other restitution news.  Entries are updated regularly.

August 2023

A private Belgian citizen has returned 20 pre-Columbian artefacts that had been in her family's possession for more than 70 years to Mexican officials in Belgium

Mexico News Daily

April 2023

Belgium's Bioethics Advisory Committee and the multi-disciplinary group "Home" advise repatriating the remains of at least 30,000 of human individuals collected on Congolese and Rwandan territories is essential

Paris Match

January 2023

Gold tooth belonging to the pan-African nationalist Patrice Lumumba, assassinated in 1961, is returned by Belgium to the Democratic Republic of Congo

Financial Times

May 2022

Belgian government department sells off valuable bronze sculpture of a head, stolen from the National Museum of Nigeria in 1987, in auction blunder

Cultural Property News

February 2022

The AfricaMuseum has handed over a list of 84,000 artefacts to the Democratic Republic of Congo to investigate provenances that may lead to restitution

Artnet News

January 2022

Belgium's Council of Ministers has adopted a draft law recognising the alienability of property linked to the Belgian State's colonial past and determining a legal framework for their restitution

News.Belgium

August 2021

Belgium agrees to the systematic return of looted artefacts to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to involve a commission of Belgian and Congolese specialists

The Guardian

June 2021

Largest ever hoard of 800 stolen artefacts from Puglia region is discovered in home of Belgian art dealer and returned to Italy

The Art Newspaper

June 2021

Belgian's government has entered into an agreement to return, in a phased manner, artefacts looted from the Democratic Republic of Congo during the Colonial era

The Art Newspaper

June 2021

Belgium returns human remains of Patrice Lumumba to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, sixty years after assassinating him

TRTWorld

December 2019

Belgian museums continue to struggle with a flurry of restitution claims

Artnet.com

September 2019

An inscribed Cypriot tombstone, dated to end of 4th cent/beginning of 3rd cent BC, has been returned to Cyprus at a ceremony in Brussels

https://www.financialmirror.com/2019/09/13/heritage-ancient-tombstone-returned-to-cyprus-in-brussels/

June 2016

Stolen marble head of the Emperor Augustus, purchased by the Cinquantenaire Museum in Brussels from a private collector, returns to Italy

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy-art-augustus/stolen-marble-head-of-romes-first-emperor-returns-to-italy-idUSKCN0Z01OO

November 1997

Belgian police return a Nalinde mask stolen from the National Museum in Livingstone, Zambia to the Zambian authorities