Bloomberg Creditors of Toms Shoes LLC, the popular footwear seller that’s been struggling to weather declining sales amid a pile of looming debt, have agreed to take over the company in exchange for restructuring its debt. The group of creditors, led by Jefferies Financial Group Inc., Nexus Capital Management LP and Brookfield Asset Management Inc. will assume the ownership from …

ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE has strongly condemned the terror attack by a car bomb on a security checkpoint in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, which resulted in death of numerous innocent civilians and the wounding of others. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation stressed that UAE strongly condemns these criminal acts and fully rejects all forms of violence, …

Bloomberg The transitional government in Sudan is planning a set of economic and political reforms, including removing fuel subsidies gradually in 2020, Reuters reported, citing Finance Minster Ibrahim Elbadawi. The subsidies for wheat and cooking gas would be retained to help the poor, he told reporters, Reuters said. Subsidies are a major burden on the government’s finances, which have been …