A woman screams as migrants and refugees demonstrate behind a fence and barbed wire at the Greece-Macedonia border, near Gevgelija on March 2, 2016. Macedonia on March 2, allowed some 170 refugees to cross its border with Greece as 10,000 more were left waiting at the border under miserable conditions. / Credit: AFP / DIMITAR DILKOFF

A woman screams as migrants and refugees demonstrate behind a fence and barbed wire at the Greece-Macedonia border, near Gevgelija on March 2, 2016.
Macedonia on March 2, allowed some 170 refugees to cross its border with Greece as 10,000 more were left waiting at the border under miserable conditions. /
Credit: AFP / DIMITAR DILKOFF

A rickety gate of galvanized wire is all that separates desperation from hope. The gate is part of the fence erected in the farming village of Idomeni on the border between Greece and Macedonia. At this moment, some 12,000 people are waiting for it to be opened.

It’s the gateway to Europe and the gateway to Germany.

A woman in boots and a blue uniform stands […]

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