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A child plays with a survival blanket at the makeshift camp at the Greek-Macedonian border, near the Greek village of Idomeni on March 26, 2016, where thousands of refugees and migrants are stranded by the Balkan border. (AFP/Sakis Mitrolidis)

March 27th, 2016 - 12:30 GMT

Refugees reluctant to leave as Greece clears Idomeni border camp

Many fear the new camps elsewhere in Greece will be no better and they will lose their chance to continue on to western Europe.

Refugees walk alongside a barbed-wire fence on the Greek-Macedonian border near Gevgelija, on March 1, 2016. (AFP/Dimitar Dilkoff)

March 1st, 2016 - 04:48 GMT

HRW: Border closures cause violence, chaos for refugees in Europe

Afghan refugees camp out in Victoria Square in Athens, Greece. (AFP/Angelos Tzortzinis)

March 1st, 2016 - 10:31 GMT

Afghans fight back against Europe’s refugee restrictions

Macedonian special police forces block the border crossing between Macedonia and Greece. (AFP/Robert Atanasovski)

February 29th, 2016 - 11:09 GMT

Over 7,000 refugees stuck at border between Greece and Macedonia