John Lewis says the shift to online shopping, restructuring plans, redundancies, store closures and cost of Covid crisis turbo-charged loss Photograph: David Lyons/Alamy By Sarah Butler Department store group records £517m loss and does not expect to reopen all stores in April when retail lockdown ends John Lewis Partnership has warned it will not be

Tanzanian President John Pombe Magufuli Multiple local news outlets in Kenya report unnamed African leader was admitted to Nairobi Hospital An opposition leader in Tanzania has claimed that the country’s president was hospitalized in Kenya with severe COVID-19 and is in critical condition. Citing government sources, Tundu Lissu urged authorities on Thursday to publicly disclose

FILE – In this Nov. 11, 2018, file photo, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara attend ceremonies at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, Pool, File) JERUSALEM (AP) — Sara Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister’s wife, was hospitalized Thursday with an appendix infection at Jerusalem’s Hadassah Medical Center, the

Credit AFP YouTube will deduct up to 24 per cent tax for content creators outside the United States. Kenyan digital content creators with YouTube channels will start paying taxes to the United States government starting June this year. In a statement sent to all YouTube content generators, parent firm Google said all creators outside the

Photo/Somali Times The President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo, has accepted the credentials of the new Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Somalia, Kate Foster. Ambassador Kate Foster conveyed the President’s greetings and message from Queen Elizabeth II, thanked her for the warm welcome and expressed her commitment to strengthening the

File Photo/Somali Times Former Somali President Ali Mahdi Mohamed has died in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, family members and other sources have confirmed to Somali Times. Ali Mahdi Mohamed had died of Covid-19. Reports say that Ali Mahdi Mohamed has been ill in the city for the last few days. Ali Mahdi Mohamed became president

The internal operations of the African Union Mission in Somalia have come under scrutiny after an audit report flagged payments to soldiers no longer serving the mission, double payments and faulty personal information, pointing to unreliable record keeping and weak controls in the Mission’s system of accountability. The leaked report by Mauritian audit firm PwC

Nuur Mohamud Sheekh during a past event. Somali diplomat Nuur Mohamud Sheekh has been named the spokesman for the regional bloc Intergovernmental Authority on Development (Igad), part of the organisation’s new approach to be reachable. It means Mr Sheekh will be the official spokesperson for the Igad Secretary General Workneh Gebeyehu as well as give

Photo/Somali Times The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry Foreign Affairs of the Federal Government Somalia Ambassador Mohamed Ali Nur Haji today welcomed the newly appointed UK Ambassador Kate Foster to Somalia at Aden Adde International Airport in Mogadishu. Kate Foster has replaced Ben Fender, who will now be based at the UK Embassy in Somalia.

KDF officer in Somalia. Cash reimbursed to Kenya for its troops fighting Al-Shabaab militia in Somalia for the half-year period through December 2020 fell Sh8 billion short of Treasury’s target at a time an audit queried payment to non-existent soldiers. Latest exchequer statistics show grants from African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom), funded by European