The world's richest man, Bill Gates, has donated almost $20m (€13.9m) to fund research into malaria, it was announced today.

Witnesses reported renewed air strikes aimed at Islamic militant targets in Somalia today, and a Somali official claimed that a senior al-Qaida figure had been killed.

A Somali official said today that an al-Qaida suspect who planned the 1998 US Embassy bombings was killed in airstrike.

The target of US air strikes in Somalia is one of the FBI’s most wanted terrorists and the suspected mastermind of two major terrorist attacks in east Africa.

A Tanzanian al-Qaida suspect wanted by the United States for the 1998 bombings at US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania was giving “very valuable” information, Pakistan’s interior minister said today.

PAKISTAN has arrested Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian al-Qaida suspect wanted by the United States in the dual 1998 bombings at US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, the interior minister said last night.

Kenyan authorities have arrested more than two dozen suspects wanted for two al-Qaida attacks, including some on the FBI’s most wanted list, a senior government official said.

Exiled tyrant Idi Amin, whose eight-year presidency of Uganda is remembered for the torture and killing of more than 200,000 people, was in a coma in a Saudi hospital today.

IDI AMIN DADA, the ex-Ugandan president and one of Africa's most notorious dictators, is in a coma and close to death in a Saudi Arabian hospital, sources at the hospital said yesterday.

A Mossad-led team of Israeli experts was carrying out sweeping searches in Mombasa today, after the two terrorist attacks on their countrymen.

KENYAN and Israeli officials suspect al-Qaida terrorists were to blame for yesterday’s bomb atrocity in Kenya, but a previously unknown militant group issued a statement in Beirut, Lebanon, claiming responsibility.

Four terrorist followers of Osama bin Laden convicted in the 1998 bombings of two US embassies in Africa have been sentenced to life without parole.