Mali : Woman Gives Birth To Nine Children

A Malian woman on Tuesday, May 4, 2021 gave birth by Caesarean section to nine babies, two more than doctors had detected inside her crowded womb joining a small pantheon of mothers of nonuplets. The pregnancy of Halima Cisse, 25, has not only been fascinating, but attracted the attention of top Malian leaders. After a two-week medical stay at a hospital in the Malian capital Bamako, the doctors requested specialist care for the rare case. On instructions of the Interim President of Mali's Transitional Government, Bah Ndaw, she was flown to Morocco accompanied by a Malian doctor, where she was admitted in a clinic for treatment on March 30, said the ministry’s statement. 
Four days after, a team of Moroccan doctors working hand-in-glove with Mali officials have made history for Africa as, "The newborns (five girls and four boys) and the mother are all doing well," Mali's health minister, Fanta Siby, told AFP. Siby also offered her congratulations to "the medical teams of Mali and Morocco, whose professionalism is at the origin of the happy outcome of this pregnancy".
Halim Cisse was expected to give birth to seven babies, according to ultrasounds conducted in Morocco and Mali that missed two of the siblings. All were delivered by caesarean section. Nonuplets are e...