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Official highlights role of intelligence-sharing between Africa, EU's border agencies

Xinhua, September 23, 2016 Adjust font size:

Frontex, the European Union (EU)'s border agency, on Thursday stressed the importance of cooperation and intelligence sharing between law enforcement agencies of Africa and the EU.

"It is of paramount importance that law enforcement agencies work together, share intelligence to help reduce cross-border crime," a Frontex statement said, quoting the agency's Executive Director Fabrice Leggeri.

"Securing one's borders, promoting bona fide travel and building a common situational awareness at the borders cannot be achieved in isolation. It is essential to work with different partner authorities at our borders and beyond," he said.

The Frontex statement came after Frontex hosted a three-day meeting of Africa-Frontex Intelligence Community (AFIC) this week in Warsaw, gathering experts from 26 African countries and various international organisations to discuss topics related to border management, such as prevention of people smuggling and trafficking, terrorism and other forms of cross-border crime.

For the first time, representatives of Algeria and Libya took part in the conference.

AFIC was set up in 2010 to provide a framework for knowledge and intelligence sharing in the field of border security between Frontex and African countries. Endit