We have seen the al-Qaeda group in Mali celebrating the events in Syria and looking at it as a potential inroad for further undermining co-operation between Russia and Mali.
Russian mercenaries have helped military regimes remain in control in Sahel countries, which now look to Moscow or Russia's Africa Corps for support.
Military regimes in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have benefited from Moscow not pressuring them to restore elected governments.
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