Subject: Meanwhile, in Africa...
Both Senegal and Chad told the French Army bon voyage.
https://responsiblestatecraft....

n late November, both Senegal and Chad – independently of one another – moved to profoundly alter their longstanding relationships with the French military.

Senegalese President Diomaye Bassirou Faye, evoking the 80th anniversary of the massacre by French soldiers of Senegalese troops recently freed from German prisoner-of-war camps, at the Thiaroye camp near Dakar, told Le Monde that “soon there will be no more French soldiers in Senegal.”

Nearly 3,000 miles to the east, Chad’s government announced that it was withdrawing from a 2019 defense cooperation agreement with France. “Sixty-six years after the proclamation of the Republic of Chad,” the statement read, “it is time for Chad to affirm its full and complete sovereignty, and to redefine its strategic partnerships according to its national priorities.”

The article mentions Russia, but the real power in Africa is China, which wants a modern-day Spice Highway of minerals and resources flowing in one direction. If a bunch of anti-western terror groups take up residence on the continent that's cool with them so long as they know not to get in the way.