Mediterranean sinking kills 200

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

Seventeen migrants have died while attempting to cross the Mediterranean in a small inflatable boat, the Italian navy says.

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

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

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

The UN reports the deaths of 62 migrants, mostly Somali and Ethiopian, off the coast of Yemen in what it says is the region's worst such incident this year.