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For Senegal Women's Basketball Team, Show Goes On Without US Visas

Originally slated to train in the United States, Les Lionnes are instead practising in their home country of Senegal (Credit: AFP)

Members of the Senegal women's national basketball team hustled across the court in central Dakar, dribbling and pivoting as the scuffing noise of their trainers echoed across the empty arena.

Originally slated to train in the United States this week, Les Lionnes are instead practising in their home country, an abrupt change of plans highlighting the heightened frustrations for many attempting to enter America under tightened border controls.

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