The Warsaw Pact may no longer exist, but by contrast the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is expanding its perceived role – the enforcement of western interest – especially in resource-rich Africa.  

NATO's expansion in Africa is intended to assert western corporate influence, where Macron's France apparently wishes to usurp Germany as the major influential European power.

But corporate interest is not the only driver for NATO's war in Africa since the Russian Federation has significant ambitions there too. Russian non-governmental private military contractors or 'Chastnaya Voennaya Kompaniya' include:

RSB Group

Centre R-Redut

Antiterror-Orel

Shchit (Shield)

PMC Wagner

SlavCorps

ATK Group

Patriot

MAR

Cossacks Group

...where PMC Wagner and Shield are particularly active in Africa.