Stranded in a strange land

Sudanese migrants at a park in Sfax, Tunisia. — ©️2023 The New York Times Company

FOR nearly a month now, more than 1,000 men, women and children from Africa have been clinging to survival in the no-man’s lands at Tunisia’s borders.

A few scrubby trees offer fitful shade, videos taken by migrants show, and border guards from neighbouring Libya and Tunisian aid workers occasionally drop off water and a bit of bread.