Last week, on 27 and 28 September, Frontex hosted the AFIC plenary meeting in Warsaw with African partner countries to discuss the main challenges relating to border management and cross-border crime, including smuggling of migrants, trafficking of human beings, drug trafficking, and terrorism.
Representatives of the EU Capacity Building Mission in Niger (EUCAP Sahel Niger) and the EU Border Management Assistance Mission in Libya (EUBAM Libya) also attended the meeting.
The event covered the significant need to enhance the situational awareness on the main risks affecting Integrated Border Management in Africa.
The results of the meeting will feed into the AFIC analysis on irregular migratory flows affecting the AFIC countries and EU Member States, cross-border crime, and the main security threats on the African continent.
This year Frontex opened three risk analysis cells, in Côte d'Ivoire, Togo, and Mauritania, adding to the five cells opened in earlier in Ghana, Gambia, Niger, Nigeria and Senegal. The risk analysis cells are a central element of AFIC, run by local analysts trained by Frontex.
AFIC was launched in 2010 to promote regular information exchange on migrant smuggling and other border security threats affecting African countries and the EU.
