I don't know, but aren't they terrorist breeding grounds? I just posted this above, but a friend of mine, a very experience special ops guy was deployed this week and is leaving tomorrow to Africa. He can't even tell us specifically where he's going. No email or mail or phone calls. Scary stuff. I'll do some checking about terrorist activity in those countries.
Here's a link to an article about our military in Africa. It's from MSNBC so it is for public consumption.
http://msnbc.msn.com/Default.aspx?id=3792975&p1=0