Italian law enforcement officers use water cannons to disperse migrants, in downtown Rome, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017. The dawn piazza operation comes days after authorities cleared most out of the 800 migrants, primarily asylum-seekers, who had been squatting in a nearby building since 2013. Authorities have said such raids to clear migrants from buildings and squares, at least four since July in Rome, are part of anti-terrorism measures. But asylum-seekers, mostly women and children, who had been allowed to remain temporarily in a nearby building hung signs out of its windows saying "We are not terrorists." More stringent border controls are preventing most of those migrants from continuing their journeys to preferred destinations further north.

Source: Ethiopian News August 24, 2017 13:41 UTC