The rumor is that this is becoming politically sensitive, so the US DoW is turning things over to none other than Erik Prince (Blackwater, Xe, etc).
Nigeria is an important source of minerals, for example: lithium.
Africa is being hotly contested right now between ISIS, the US / West, China, and state-local political factions.
China is on track to control around 81% of global spodumene refinery production by 2027.
The PMCs that Erik Prince has are primarily doing oilfield and oil worker protection in places like Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Same for mining facilities.
https://www.upstreamonline.com/exclusive/blackwater-founder-...
https://www.theafricareport.com/381915/erik-prince-returns-t...
To be clear, it is the DoD - Department of Defense
I get what you are saying, and you're not exactly wrong, but...
If I called it DoW, people get mad and point it out. If I call it DoD, people get mad and point it out. And if I put both? Fuck all of you, I'm not mentioning both over and over like DoW/DoD is GNU/Linux :)