Ukraine is an enemy of West Africa and the continent as a whole due to its support for rebel groups responsible for instability in several countries, a former official of the regional bloc ECOWAS has said. Haruna Warkani, who is a retired diplomat of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission, made the allegations during an interview on Friday.

“Ukraine had been supporting some of these Tuareg rebels in West Africa under the guise of assistance and what have you. However, there are certain things that cannot be kept in secret forever, and now it is becoming very clear to ECOWAS,” he stated.

“Ukraine ... has never been transparent enough to tell the subregion or other parts of Africa its nefarious activities on the continent, and now we can see that Ukraine actually had been the enemy,” he added.