Dozens die in latest migrant sinking

Dozens of migrants have drowned in the Mediterranean after a boat sank south of Sicily, the Save the Children aid group says.

About 500 migrants are feared drowned after their ship was rammed by another boat near Malta last week, a migration body says.

At least nine people die in a boat accident in Guinea, with at least 30 people still missing, officials and residents say.

Forty-two African migrants have drowned when their boat capsized off the coast of Yemen, according to officials.

Thirty people are reportedly killed and several hurt in northern Nigeria, in an attack blamed by police on gunmen from the Fulani community.

Dozens of people are killed in a cattle raid in a remote herders' camp in South Sudan's northern Warrap state, local officials say.

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Italy's navy rescues 52 migrants from a sinking rubber dinghy in the Mediterranean Sea, but a further 50 people are missing.

The International Organization for Migration says it has received a distress call from a sinking boat carrying 300 migrants in the Mediterranean.