Among the most vulnerable of those crammed into Greeces squalid refugee camps are the unaccompanied minors.

When the Taliban ramped up their attacks in Afghanistans Jaghori district last year, Abdullahs mother told him to flee to Europe. He was nine and his journey was brutal, but now, trekking through Moria, a squalid and overcrowded refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, Abdullah is concerned about his fate.

Can I go to England? he asks, adjusting his blue-and-white striped football jersey. I want to become a famous football player.

There are more than 1,000 unaccompanied minors in the Moria camp

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The 10-year-old Afghan boy is among a growing number of unaccompanied minors left to fend for themselves because European Union member states have dragged their heels on resettling them. The number of cases in Greece has

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