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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Angus McDowall and Tarek Amara

As Tunisia votes, coastal town's youth dream only of Europe

Families of migrants who drowned stage a sit-in protest outside the local government offices in Zarzis, Tunisia, December 12, 2022. REUTERS/Angus McDowall

Tunisia holds an election on Saturday but, in the coastal town of Zarzis, teenager Ismail Challahki and others like him couldn't care less. All they're waiting for is the chance to risk their lives on another smugglers' boat bound for Europe.

A dozen years after the country's revolution triggered the Arab spring, poverty levels are on the rise and its political system is all but broken.

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