Senegal

Despite various serious socioeconomic issues, Senegal boasts relative stability. The government’s dedicated efforts to root out corruption are aided by a handful of sympathetic heroes and law enforcement experts. Most notable among these is Ombre Rouge (“Red Shadow”), formerly of the Champions of West Africa. Ombre Rouge left the CWA because she felt the team’s approach kept her from cleaning up things at a local level, which is how she prefers to work. Operating out of the capital city of Dakar, she is primarily focused on large scale criminal operations, and has made many enemies of native and foreign interests who conduct illegal operations in her country.
Ombre Rouge is largely apolitical, but she is aware of how damaging rebellion and unrest can be to the people of a nation. She’s developed a unique reputation with various dissident and revolutionary groups; she protects and even sometimes aids those who attempt peaceful solutions and only resorts to violence in the most extreme circumstances. By contrast, she treats more violent rebel groups as no better than the criminals she predominantly fights. This has resulted in unfair accusations by some rebel groups that the hero is just a government flunky, when in fact she’s devoted to serving the people (not the government) and bringing them peace and justice.
Recently, Ombre Rouge has noticed increased weapons smuggling through her nation and has begun to uncover a conspiracy of officials, criminals, and foreign nationals using Senegal as a major exit and entry point for arms sales in the region. The identity of the mastermind behind these operations is currently unknown, but whomever it is often uses trained superhuman operatives to protect their business interests and eliminate problems. Thus far, attempts to stop Ombre Rouge have failed utterly, but neither has the hero succeeded in shutting these criminal operations down completely.