AECID Agencia Española de la Cooperación Internacional de Desarrollo
AEI Afrique-Europe-Interact (transnational migration advocacy network)
AfD Alternative für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany; far-right German political party)
AFIC Africa-Frontex-Intelligence Community
AG Rück Bund-Länder-Arbeitsgruppe Rückführungen (Federal- and State-level Workgroup on Repatriations)
AHK Außenhandelskammer (German Chambers of Commerce Abroad)
AI Amnesty International
AME L’Association Malienne des Expulsés (Malian Association of Deportees)
AQM al-Qaida in the Maghreb (Islamist militia and branch of the global terrorist network in North Africa)
ASD Aerospace and Defence Industries Association of Europe
AU African Union
BAMF Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge (Federal Office for Migration and Refugees)
BKA Bundeskriminalamt (Federal Criminal Police Office)
BMVg: Bundesministerium für Verteidigung (Federal Ministry of Defence)
BMZ Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammen¬arbeit und Entwicklung (Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development)
CDU Christlich Demokratische Union (Christian Democratic Union; conservative German political party)
CIGEM Centre d’Information et de Gestion des Migrations (Euro-Malian agency for migration management)
CSU Christlich-Soziale Union (Christian Social Union; conservative political party in Bavaria)
DG ECHO Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations
DIE Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (German Development Institute)
DW Deutsche Welle (Germany’s public international broadcaster)
EAC East African Community
EADS European Aeronautic Defence and Space; European corporation since renamed Airbus
EBCG European Border and Coast Guard
ECCHR European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights:
ECHR European Court of Human Rights
ECOWAS Economic Community of West African States
EDF European Development Fund
EEAS European External Action Service
EIRR Eritrean Initiative on Refugee Rights
EMN European Migration Network
EOS European Organisation for Security
EPA Economic Partnership Agreement
ERMCE Enhancing the Response to Migration Challenges in Egypt (EU-funded migration policy program in Egypt)
ESF European Security Fencing (Spanish fencing producer)
ESI European Stability Initiative
ESSN Emergency Social Safety Net (EU program for supporting Syrian refugees in Turkey paid from the FRT)
EU: European Union
EU-LISA European Agency for the operational management of Large-Scale IT Systems
EUBAM European Union Border Assistance Mission (EU training mission in Libya)
EUCAP EU Capacity Building Mission (EU military mission in Niger and Sahel)
EURODAC European Dactyloscopy (fingerprint identification system which records the fingerprints of all registered asylum seekers)
EUROPOL European Union law enforcement agency
EUROSUR European Border Surveillance System
EUTF EU Emergency Trust Fund (European emergency fund for Africa)
EUTM European Training Mission
FDP Free Democratic Party (liberal German political party)
FRA EU Fundamental Rights Agency
FRT Facility for Refugees in Turkey (EU program to support Syrian refugees in Turkey)
GIZ Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammen¬arbeit (German Corporation for International Cooperation)
GNA Government of National Accord (provisional government in Libya)
HRW Human Rights Watch
IBM Integrated Border Management
ICAO International Civil Aviation Organization
ICC International Criminal Court
ICJ International Court of Justice
IGAD Intergovernmental Authority on Development (peace-keeping and development association between Northeast African states)
IOM International Organization for Migration
IPA Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (EU financing instrument for membership candidates)
IS Islamic State (Islamist terrorist organization)
IWI Israel Weapon Industries
JEM Justice and Equality Movement (Sudanese rebel organization)
KfW Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (German state-owned development bank)
LIBE Committee on Civil Liberties Justice and Home Affairs
MINUSMA United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (UN mission in Mali)
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NCCHF National Committee to Combat Human Trafficking (Sudan)
NDR Norddeutscher Rundfunk (North-German public broadcaster
NGO Non-Governmental Organization
NIS Nigeria Immigration Service
NISS National Intelligence and Security Service (Sudan)
NRC Norwegian Refugee Council
NSS National Security Sector (Egypt’s security service)
OECD Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development
RABIT Rapid Border Intervention Teams of Frontex (police officers from all over the EU deployed to the external borders)
ROCK Regional Operational Centre in support of the Khartoum Process and AU-Horn of Africa Initiative
RSF Rapid Support Forces (Sudan’s border protection unit)
SADC Southern African Development Community
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany
SPÖ Social Democratic Party of Austria
UEMOA Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest Africaine (West African Economic and Monetary Union)
UN United Nations
UNECA United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
UNEP United Nations Environment Programme
UNHCR United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UN refugee agency)
UNODC United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
UNOWAS United Nations Office for West Africa
USA United States of America
WAPIS West Africa Police Information System
WDR Westdeutscher Rundfunk (public broadcaster for Western Germany)
WHO World Health Organization
WTO World Trade Organization