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Arsenal’s controversial sponsorship deal with Visit Rwanda to end next year

The Visit Rwanda logo on Arsenal's shirt
The link-up between Arsenal and the Rwanda Development Board will end next June. Photograph: Jacques Feeney/Offside/Getty Images

Arsenal’s controversial sponsorship partnership with Visit Rwanda will end in June, the club have announced.

The deal, reportedly worth in the region of £10m a year, began in 2018 and has come under scrutiny amid Rwanda’s support for the M23 ­militia in conflicts taking place in the eastern part of the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo. In February, Arsenal were accused of delivering an “outrageous” snub to the ­Congolese ­government by not meeting the ­foreign minister, ­Thérèse ­Kayikwamba Wagner, to ­discuss the deal.

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