26/06/2025
🇸🇳 The Senegal Women’s Basketball team failed to attend a training camp in the United States, scheduled to start June 22, after some of its players and staff had their visas rejected as the country ramps up immigration control.
The Senegalese Basketball Federation revealed that the issue was due to the unapproved visas. According to the reports, five players, six staffers, and one ministerial delegation were affected.
The news follows expanded travel bans to the the United States for multiple countries, including several African nations. Senegal is not on that list.
The U.S. had originally granted exemptions for the World Cup, Olympics, and any “other major sporting event.” It’s plausible that the training camp doesn’t qualify for that designation.
The training camp will instead take place in Dakar, Senegal as the team prepares for the Women’s AfroBasket. Senegal has won 11 titles, the most in the championship tournament’s history.
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