{"id":10157,"date":"2025-02-03T08:12:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T08:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/calls-for-arsenal-psg-and-bayern-munich-to-end-visit-rwanda-deals\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T08:12:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T08:12:14","slug":"calls-for-arsenal-psg-and-bayern-munich-to-end-visit-rwanda-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/calls-for-arsenal-psg-and-bayern-munich-to-end-visit-rwanda-deals\/","title":{"rendered":"Calls for Arsenal, PSG and Bayern Munich to end Visit Rwanda deals"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The Visit Rwanda campaign has successfully raised the east African country’s profile but Rwanda’s government has been accused of investing in sport to enhance its global image – a strategy labelled by critics as ‘sportswashing’.<\/p>\n

A sleeve partnership with Arsenal began in 2018, with the latest sponsorship reported to be worth more than \u00a310m ($12.39 million) per year.<\/p>\n

A sponsorship with PSG was agreed the following year, and Bayern Munich signed a five-year football development and tourism promotion partnership with Rwanda in 2023.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Rwanda President Paul Kagame has announced a bid to stage a Formula 1 race<\/a> and Kigali is set to be the venue for cycling’s World Road Championships in September.<\/p>\n

On Friday the UCI, cycling’s world governing body, said there were no plans to relocate the event away from Rwanda.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Central Africa director at Human Rights Watch, a campaign group which investigates and reports on cases of abuse around the globe, says these deals and events help hide Rwanda’s “abysmal track record” on human rights.<\/p>\n

“Rwanda has major flaws with due process which violate its own internal laws or international standards,” HRW’s Lewis Mudge told BBC Sport Africa last month.<\/p>\n

“Increasingly we’re seeing the space for freedom of expression, for some degree of political autonomy, is actually shrinking.”<\/p>\n

The Rwandan government has dismissed accusations of sportswashing, with its chief tourism officer Irene Murerwa calling them “a distraction” from the “amazing and outstanding achievements the country has made”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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