Meanwhile in Africa

In 2006, just 1% of commandos sent overseas were deployed in the U.S. Africa Command area of operations. In 2016, 17.26% of all U.S. Special Operations forces — Navy SEALs and Green Berets among them — deployed abroad were sent to Africa, according to data supplied to The Intercept by U.S. Special Operations Command. That total ranks second only to the Greater Middle East where the U.S. is waging war against enemies in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen.
  The Intercept

After Somalia in 1993, I guess we don't want to hear about engaging in Africa.

Brigadier General Donald Bolduc, the chief of U.S. Special Operations Command Africa, told African Defense, a U.S. trade publication, early this fall [...] “We are not at war in Africa — but our African partners certainly are.”

We've just got more Special Ops forces there than anywhere else aside from all of the Middle East.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.