Is AFCI a requirement outside the United States?
NEC 2017 requires AFCI in a number of places, unless the state law that adopts NEC 2017 or a local ordinance waives that requirement.  

If they don't have a functioning government, then it'll be pretty hard for them to waive an AFCI requirement.  So yeah, it would be required most places.  

There's a little more armwaving going on here, but it boils down to "the customer is always right".  Basically the AHJ is the customer.