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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Namita Singh

Malian mother in Morocco returns home with healthy nonuplets after a year

Halima Cissé

A Malian woman who gave birth to the world’s only nonuplets last year finally returned home with her nine babies yesterday.

Halima Cissé, 27, was sent to Morocco for special care ahead of the birth of her five girls and four boys. The delivery of the babies in May last year made a new Guinness World Record for the most children delivered in a single birth to have survived.

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