Rwanda

Former Arsenal legend Sol Campbell attends the 19th Kwita Izina gorilla naming ceremony in Rwanda, adding a football dimension to wildlife conservation. How does Arsenal fit into this?

Arsenal players took part in the annual Rwandan Kwita Izina for the third year running, this time remotely.

Arsenal have signed a partnership agreement with National Geographic to “highlight the tourism opportunities that our official partner, Visit Rwanda, has to offer.”

Rwandan police say they have arrested two football officials in the country and are investigating allegations that they tried to bribe a referee before an AFCON qualifying match against the Ivory Coast last week.

Rwanda will continue to be ruled by Paul Kagame’s Patriotic Front after they netted 74 per cent of the vote, along with seven of their allied parties, in elections this week.

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The CEO of Rwanda’s national development board claims Arsenal approached Rwanda about a shirt sponsorship deal, not the other way around

Rwanda’s Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Olivier Nduhungirehe, has told broadcaster CNN to ‘be quiet’ after they criticised his country’s deal with Arsenal, prompting a backlash in the nation.

There has been a lot of talk over the past week or so about Arsenal’s sleeve sponsorship deal with Rwanda yet the moral outrage from some journalists that greeted news of the arrangement has been conspicuously lacking in relation to deals with the likes of Emirates, Etihad, or Roman Abramovich.

Dutch MPs have called for an enquiry into Arsenal’s controversial sleeve sponsorship deal with Rwanda, asking how the country, that receives so much in foreign aid, can afford to spend £30m on advertising with the Gunners.