Tag: Dakar
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What is Frontex doing in Senegal? Secret services also participate in their network of “Risk Analysis Cells”
Frontex has been allowed to conclude stationing agreements with third countries since 2016. However, the government in Dakar does not currently want the EU border police in the country. Nevertheless, Frontex has been active there since 2006. When Frontex was founded in 2004, the EU states wrote into its border agency’s charter that it could […]
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Status agreement with Senegal: Frontex might operate in Africa for the first time
The border agency in Warsaw could deploy drones, vessels and personnel. It would be the first mission in a country that does not directly border the EU. Mauretania might be next. As a “priority third state” in West Africa, Senegal has long been a partner for migration-related security cooperation with the EU. The government in […]
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Frontex wants to disembark refugees in Senegal
“Hera” is the only Frontex maritime mission on the territory of a third country. A new agreement might extend this joint border surveillance The EU border agency Frontex wants to bring back refugees picked up in the Atlantic Ocean to Senegal. The EU Commission should therefore negotiate a so-called Status Agreement with the government in […]