Malian woman gives birth to nine babies
Halima Cisse, 25, was expected to possess seven babies but health officials said ultrasound tests missed two of the siblings.
Halima Cisse gave birth to the nonuplets in Morocco. Mali's government flew her there for specialist care.
The five girls and 4 boys were born by cesarean delivery and were doing well, Mali's health minister said.
It is extremely rare to offer birth to a group of nonuplets - and complications during and after birth often mean the babies don't survive.
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Of the 2 sets of nonuplets known about - one born to a lady in Australia in 1971 and another to a lady in Malaysia in 1999 - none survived.
The first octuplets - eight babies - to all or any survive to get older were born in 2009 to a lady within the US who conceived them through in vitro fertilisation.
Fanta Siby, Mali's health minister, congratulated the medical teams in both countries for the "happy outcome".
“The newborns (five girls and 4 boys) and therefore the mother are all doing well,” Mali’s health minister Fanta Siby said during a statement, adding they're thanks to return range in several weeks’ time.
Siby offered her congratulations to “the medical teams of Mali and Morocco, whose professionalism is at the origin of the happy outcome of this pregnancy”.
Cisse was expected to offer birth to septuplets (seven babies), consistent with ultrasounds conducted in Morocco and Mali that missed two of the babies.
Cases of girls successfully carrying septuplets to term are rare – and nonuplets even rarer.
Moroccan authorities have yet to verify what would be a particularly rare case. Health ministry spokesman Rachid Koudhari said he had no knowledge of such a multiple birth having taken place in one among the country’s hospitals, consistent with the AFP press agency.
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