A mother who gave birth to a record-busting nine kids has taken them back to Mali after spending 19 months in Morocco.
The babies - who broke a Guinness World Record for most children to survive a single delivery - spent the first few months of their lives in incubators in the Ain Borja clinic in Casablanca after their birth in May last year.
Their mother Halima Cissé, now 27, who was told about the enormous brood just moments before surgery, beat the previous record set by "Octomum" Nadya Suleman in 2009.
After their delivery, Malian authorities said 30-weeks pregnant mum Halima has successfully delivered five girls and four boys by C-Section surgery.
The girls were later named Kadidia, Oumou, Adama, Fatouma, and Hawa, while the boys were dubbed Mohammed VI, Bah, Elhadji and Oumar.
They weighed between just 500g and 1kg at birth at time of birth, according to Professor Youssef Alaoui, director of the Ain Borja.
Due to how premature they were, there were fears they could develop health complications, but in May this year their father announced the happy news that they were "in perfect health" one year on.
After the first few months of their lives spent in the clinic, they moved to a nearby apartment where doctors from the Ain Borja were able to provide around-the-clock care.
Speaking earlier this year, their dad Abdelkader Arby said he could already tell them apart by their unique personalities.
He said: ""They all have different characters. Some are quiet, while other make more noise and cry a lot. Some want to be picked up all the time. They are all very different, which is entirely normal."
Abdelkader added that the infants had become a sensation in Mali, where locals were "very keen to see the babies with their own eyes".
In June, their exhausted mum Halima - who reportedly almost died of blood loss during the surgery - shared how she gets through an eye-watering 100 nappies per day.
She told the MailOnline: "As the babies were coming out, there were so many questions going through my mind.
"I was very aware of what was going on and it seemed as if there was an endless stream of babies coming out of me."
Her sister held her hand during the procedure to calm her but she couldn't stop thinking about "how would I look after them and who was going to help me?"
Within a month she had run out of breast milk and had to move to a private room in the hospital, too exhausted to look after the children.
Instead she visited them once a day for 30 minutes so as to forge a bond with the tots.
The babies need up to six litres of milk a day to keep them fed.
Their dad, 35, who worked as a merchant sailor, was unable to travel due to Covid restrictions, meaning he met his nine children for the first time on July 19 - two months after their birth.
Halima had initially spent two weeks in Point G Hospital in Bamako, Mali's capital, before she was transferred to Morocco after Mali's President of Transition Bah N'Daw intervened.
