If it is the French Secret Service, Military Intelligence of the French Foreign Legion or ex-French nationals and exLegionairs being part of Algerian forces since the attack against deGaulle and school system reforms in the 60ies, is one thing.
The other is that Freedom is not the problem in Africa since Apartheid ended, but a lack of finances. They could have all weapons, trucks and companies, but no on can afford the entire set.
Burkina Faso is a good example and the current Shorts on YouTube worry me a bit. He speaks French, he is Military and needed to found a bank to push money into local businesses, while Boko Haram receives, being close, funding from abroad. The West.
Freedom is limited everywhere in Afrika. Only in Apartheid South Africa freedom did not exist at all.
Check the row of Amandaments. Than calculate what building a Church, Radio station and News Agency, a Colt rifle and ammo cost.
Now tell me why that one man having all cannot get any bank to have the rest around him get the same having a U.S. banking licence?
Freedom comes with duty. You may serve, too.
We also can make you.