For example the Jihadists made a lot of money in the Congo civl war
Euh, how so exactly?
It's the civil war in Algeria that might have opened the way to so called 'Jihad' in Africa, by the fact that the GIA had been expelled from the north of the country to, notably, the desert, where he latter became the GSPC, and latter AQIM, and then did spread in different Saharan countries, living notably through all kinds of criminal traffics (humans, hostages, drugs, cigarettes), also making local alliances, amongst populations (marriages) and with established rebel groups, Malian Touaregs have been a big example.
The civil war in Somalia would have been the other 1st fire, both taking place in the 1990s yes, and that one was directly in so called 'Black Africa'.
But so far, never managed to catch under Sahara/Sahel (which already is a big piece of land, but still, very few populated, it's not 'AFRICA IS ON FIRE!!' yet).
There had apparently really been an inflammable danger in Centrafrique during the very last years, and once again, the country in which I live, has been
freaking alone to intervene, just like in Mali...
You can't say the situation is totally solved in Centrafrique, and personally it's been a long time I haven't followed it closely, but at one point it seemed very close from a 'religious rwanda'. And here, you're with the tipping point of Africa, all cultural crossroads are there (might be why he has such a 'non-name', purely created by French colonization apparently), and overall not far from the 2 master inflamable pieces of the continent, which also have serious religious issues, amongst other ones. Nigeria and DR Congo.
So far France extinguished the 2 most risky fires, but it won't be able to do that all the time, and especially still less in non-Francophone countries, in which it doesn't have all the cultural and technical connections it has in Francophone countries, and going at war, even if that's what Hollande does the best and that the operation in Mali has been quite popular, becomes less and less trendy here to say the least, because you know 'WE HAVE TO SAVE TO SAVE MONEY!'.
So the rest of Europe/US will just wait and see or try to set true cooperation/security policies with countries at risk?
More worrying for now would be Nigeria and an eventual large scale contamination to Niger and Cameroun on the longer run, that could even eventually restart Centrafrique fire, which at one point was close to spread to Tchad...
And the fact that the 'Islamic State' is such a 'cool revolutionary group to fire big bad Westerners and their proud African allies' doesn't help...
