{"id":41608,"date":"2020-06-29T16:57:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T16:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/president-kagame-s-choice-arsenal-fc-vs-paris-saint-germain\/"},"modified":"2020-07-03T10:28:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T10:28:18","slug":"president-kagame-s-choice-arsenal-fc-vs-paris-saint-germain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/president-kagame-s-choice-arsenal-fc-vs-paris-saint-germain\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame\u2019s choice: Arsenal FC vs Paris Saint-Germain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2018, Rwanda Development Board (RDB)  started working with Arsenal in a partnership aimed at promoting Rwandan tourism while at the end of 2019, Rwanda also partnered with Paris-based Saint-Germain, with a strong focus on promoting Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Jeune Afrique, President Kagame, an Arsenal fan, was asked which team he would support if the two teams meet.<\/p>\n<p>In response, President Kagame said he would refrain from taking sides because it was like asking him who he would choose to support between the United States and China.<\/p>\n<p>Returning to this partnership between the two parties in the final round of 2019, President Kagame said the agreement was exciting for the Rwandan side and productive on both sides.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have benefited from this deal and it is productive, both for Paris Saint-Germain and Arsenal FC and we are happy with it,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-36014 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/egmbpxvwsaead564-de028-17141.jpg\" alt=\"In 2018, Rwanda Development Board (RDB)  started working with Arsenal in a partnership aimed at promoting Rwandan tourism while at the end of 2019\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Paul Kagame has revealed that if Arsenal FC and Paris Saint-Germain meet to promote Rwandan tourism, he would apportion his support by 50 to 50.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[204],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-41608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-elina-jonas-ruzindaza"],"bylines":[{"id":204,"name":"Elina Jonas Ruzindaza","slug":"elina-jonas-ruzindaza","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":103}],"contributors":[{"id":204,"name":"Elina Jonas Ruzindaza","slug":"elina-jonas-ruzindaza","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":103}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41608"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=41608"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=41608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}