{"id":221004,"date":"2026-01-19T11:16:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T09:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/rwanda-no-evidence-that-rwandas-president-denied-having-lunch-with-his-nigerian-counterpart-in-france\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T11:16:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T09:16:49","slug":"rwanda-no-evidence-that-rwandas-president-denied-having-lunch-with-his-nigerian-counterpart-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/rwanda-no-evidence-that-rwandas-president-denied-having-lunch-with-his-nigerian-counterpart-in-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda: No Evidence That Rwanda&#8217;s President Denied Having Lunch With His Nigerian Counterpart in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\"><em>No evidence that Rwanda&#8217;s president denied having lunch with his Nigerian counterpart in France<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\"><strong>IN SHORT:<\/strong> A post circulating on Facebook claims that Rwandan president Paul Kagame has denied having lunch with Nigerian president Bola Tinubu in France in early January 2026. But there is no evidence to support the claim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">On <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/officialABAT\/status\/2007850631579529506\">4 January 2026<\/a>, Nigerian president Bola Tinubu <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/officialABAT\/status\/2007850631579529506\">posted<\/a> a photo from his private lunch with Rwandan president Paul Kagame in Paris, France. Tinubu said they met to discuss global&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601190057.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No evidence that Rwanda&#8217;s president denied having lunch with his Nigerian counterpart in France IN SHORT: A post circulating on Facebook claims that Rwandan president Paul Kagame has denied having lunch with Nigerian president Bola Tinubu in France in early January 2026. But there is no evidence to support the claim. On 4 January 2026, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":221005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,8166,7634,7013,4960,16220,257,393,482,2450,4702,13886,254],"class_list":["post-221004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-counterpart","tag-denied","tag-evidence","tag-france","tag-lunch","tag-news","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerian","tag-president","tag-rwanda","tag-rwandas","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}