Migrants driven from Tunisian olive groves left in limbo

Batons in hand, Tunisian police marched in single file down a dirt path flanked by olive trees. Ahead of them, migrants fled as their tents burned.

Some migrants stood by helplessly, watching the smoke swirl into the sky just a few hundred metres (yards) away after the authorities torched what had been their temporary homes.

“I don’t know what to do,” said Bakayo Abdelkadeur, a 26-year-old from Mali, clutching two worn blankets.

For nearly two years, olive groves around El Amra, a town south of…