Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo expressed what many in Africa feared from the NATO attack on Libya:
"We knew that at the end of the Libya operations, there would be fallouts. And the fallout would be where would all the weapons go? Where would be some of those who have been trained how to use weapons [and] how would they be accounted for? ..."Part of what is happening in Mali is part of the fallout from Libya, and we should not expect that Mali will be the last."