actually africa as a continent has quite a few SF groups, i wont go into actual names but here are some countries i know of that possess SF units: Burundi, kenya, cameroon, ivory coast (or cote de ivoire for you frogs out there), egypt, DR of congo, ghana, djibouti, gabon, gambia, morrocco, madagascar, mali, nigeria, namibia, mozambique, eritrea, niger, south africa (SADF SFB-cummon kid, you've heard of them for sure), sudan, senegal, togo, and zimbabwe, that's quite a few if you think about it, not forgetting that a lot of the above nations have more than one SF unit (although the big thing in africa today is presidential protection... but a lot of 'em can be considered SF), and also, there are likely more nations with SF in africa than mentioned above, those are the ones i've heard of (or can remember in my old age... shite i even had to write it down to remember)

Egyptian SOF was in a gun battle with another nations NG during peace time? LOL, that is very, very bad...maybe their compasses were inaccurate

egypt: let's not forget the boeing 737 assault by task force 777, not the greatest of results to say the least. then again, i don't think anymore egypt airlines have been hijacked since. if i were an egyptian, i don't think i'd fly anymore after that result, talk about going out with a BANG

as i said before GOP a lot of african SF's are really just presidential or head of state protection units (not to say they're not elite) but they just don't handle the same area of responsibilty as many western and asian SF units. however, there are some fairly credible SF units among them, SDF is a competent fighting force, and other african SF units hold a vast number of indigenous persons in their ranks so they have been brought up in the land and know how to survive