Launched in 2010, the Africa–Frontex Intelligence Community (AFIC) helps African countries and the EU work together to share information on migrant smuggling and other border security threats, and to develop a common understanding of the risks affecting their borders. It brings together border security analysts and practitioners from partner authorities with their counterparts at Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency.
Over the past 15 years, AFIC has grown into a network of partners from across Africa, working side by side with Frontex to raise operational challenges and find solutions that would be difficult to achieve without joint effort. In 2018, the Niamey Declaration by EU and AU Interior Ministers highlighted the central role of Frontex and AFIC as a regional information-exchange network for border management.