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[caption id="attachment_39019" align="alignleft" width="660"] Fatoumata Ceesay
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Fatoumata Ceesay is one of the Gambian team, who have created a robot to clean polluted water[/caption]
Gambian students who were twice denied visas to travel to the US for a robotics competition are celebrating after permission was granted.
The team will now go to Washington DC and show off their invention. The reasons for the initial rejections are unclear. Gambia is a Muslim majority country but it is not on the US's six-country travel ban, which was introduced by President Donald Trump. One of the participants, Fatoumata Ceesay, 17, told BBC Newsday, the team was pleased to be able to travel. Mucktarr Darboe is a director at the ministry of higher education, and the US has a ban on granting visas to employees of the Gambian government after a deportation row last year. Earlier this week, an all-girl team of roboticists from Afghanistan were denied US visas to travel to the same competition.