By Olivier Guitta
Russia has made a clear choice to expand its influence in Africa. In the past three years, it has yielded extraordinary results, moving into about twenty African countries. Logically it has ruffled some feathers and especially French ones. Indeed, Russia has increased its influence in ex-French colonies, setting up a proxy war with France that has been escalating by the day. The latest theatre of that war is Mali, the crucial and troubled country in the Sahel.
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