'The Jungle Is Over.' Migrants Leave Calais Behind

Oct 25, 2016, 10:25 AM

It was still pitch dark and icy cold before dawn on Monday in northern France. But for one 16-year-old Ethiopian, it was time to move. Yadaf Awal packed his few possessions in a bag and headed out of the sprawling refugee settlement on the edge of Calais—the next stage of his grueling trek that has taken him for a year across the searing Sahara through Libya, then to Italy and France. "I want to go to the U.K. I have ambition," he says. "But anywhere in Europe is good for me.