The Senegal women’s basketball team has had to cancel a training camp it had scheduled in the United States after some members of its squad had their visas denied, the country’s prime minister said on Thursday.

The Senegalese women's basketball team has scrapped plans to train in the U.S. for the upcoming AfroBasket tournament in the Ivory Coast next month after several players and team officials had their visas denied.

Senegal’s national women’s basketball team has been forced to abandon its planned training camp in the United States ahead of next month’s AfroBasket tournament, after a dozen players and officials were denied visas.