Gambian students who were twice denied visas to move to the USA for a robotics contest are celebrating later on permission was granted.
The squad volition directly larn to Washington DC as well as present off their invention.
The reasons for the initial rejections are unclear.
Gambia is a Muslim bulk province only it is non on the US's six-country move ban, which was introduced past times President Donald Trump.
One of the participants, Fatoumata Ceesay, 17, told BBC Newsday, the squad was pleased to hold upwards able to travel.
"We are excited as well as happy, only too disheartened, because nosotros are non going alongside our mentor because he is a authorities official," she said.
Mucktarr Darboe is a managing director at the ministry building of higher education, as well as the USA has a ban on granting visas to employees of the Gambian authorities later on a deportation row end year.
Earlier this week, an all-girl squad of roboticists from Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan were denied USA visas to move to the same competition.
The Gambian robot has been devised to construct clean contaminated rivers.
It was designed for the First Global competition, which has seen teams from 164 countries compete inwards a serial of robotic games.
The culminating three-day USA final result starts on sixteen July.
The non-profit scheme aims to promote Stem subjects (science, technology, applied scientific discipline as well as maths).
"I promise to come upwards dorsum alongside cognition as well as inspiration to hand immature Gambians, specially the girls," said Ms Ceesay.
She said many people her historic menstruum aspired to careers inwards medicine as well as "engineering is lagging behind". She hopes success stories similar that of her squad volition highlight Gambia's potential to innovate.
Neither Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan nor The Gambia is business office of the US's so-called move ban, which affects people from Syria, Sudan, Iran, Somalia, Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya as well as Yemen.
BBC