Michael Kaluki

21 days prior to their arrival in the U.S.

The Congolese team is due to play Portugal in Houston next month in the opening World Cup match.

Following the recent Ebola outbreak, the U.S.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has prohibited the entry of foreign nationals who have been in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda and South Sudan 21 days prior to their arrival in the U.S.

The Congolese team is due to play Portugal in Houston next month in the opening World Cup match.

For NPR News, I'm Michael Kaluki in Nairobi.

In a statement, the U.S.

Army said that the body of the soldier, identified as 27-year-old First Lieutenant Kendrick Lamont Key Jr., was recovered by a Moroccan military search team along the Moroccan shoreline over the weekend.

The army said that plans are underway to repatriate his body back to the United States.

Search and rescue operations continue to find the second soldier who had also gone missing.

The two soldiers fell off a cliff during a recreational hike while off duty.

They had been participating in annual joint military exercises known as African Lion, which involved U.S.

troops, NATO member forces and several African countries.

For NPR News, I'm Michael Kaluki in Nairobi.

The Al-Qaeda-linked militant group JNIM claimed responsibility for attacks in parts of the country, while the rebel group FLA also claimed to have carried out a number of attacks.

In a statement, Mali's military said that several assailants had been killed during the incidents, with a government spokesperson adding that a number of people had also been injured.

Meanwhile, the American embassy in Mali has issued a security alert, calling on U.S.

citizens in the West African nation to shelter in place.

Following the attacks, the UN has called for an international response to violence in the West Africa Sahel region.

For NPR News, I'm Michael Kaluki in Nairobi.