A boat carrying migrants capsized off the coast of Mauritania, killing 69 people. The boat capsized when migrants saw the lights of a town and moved to one side. A senior coastguard official confirmed that 17 people were rescued. The boat had left The Gambia a week earlier with around 160 people on board. Drownings are common during the dangerous crossing between Africa and Europe, with strong ocean currents and ramshackle vessels making the journey hazardous.
Migrants aboard a Guradia di Finanza and Navy military vessel are tranferred from the so-called migrant "Hotspot" operational processing facility on the southern Italian Island of Lampedusa, south of Sicily, to another center, on July 11, 2022. (Photo by Alessandro SERRANO / AFP)