Rwandan President and Arsenal fan Paul Kagame frustrated by defeat

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Rwandan President and Arsenal fan Paul Kagame frustrated by defeat
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Paul Kagame, a committed Gunners fan, lashes out on Twitter at the club his government sponsors.

In two further rapid-fire tweets, he demanded "a plan that really works" and lamented that "fans don't deserve to kind of get used to this".

Since 2018, the Rwandan government has had a controversial sponsorship deal worth more than £30m , which involves a "Visit Rwanda" logo displayed on Arsenal shirt sleeves. Critics have said it is an example of the authoritarian leader of a poor, African country subsidising a wealthy football club. But the Rwandan government says the sponsorship more than pays for itself over in tourism revenue.Under President Kagame, the landlocked country has recovered from ethnic strife and genocide in the 1990s. In 2018 the World Bank praised its "remarkable development successes".

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