AL ATAYA, Tunisia—More than seven years after Tunisians overthrew their country’s dictatorship in a revolution that spawned the Arab Spring, the country’s economy is in crisis and thousands of people are sneaking into Europe, as part of a new wave of clandestine migration from what had been a North African success story. A fishing community here of low-slung stone houses, on the Mediterranean’s Kerkennah Islands, has become a gathering point for smugglers sending young Tunisians to Italy. The young people sail by night on...

Source: Wall Street Journal August 27, 2018 09:22 UTC