The world’s only nonuplets—nine infants born simultaneously—have safely returned to Mali, where they were born.
In the wee hours of Tuesday, the parents and their nine infants arrived at the airport in the capital, Bamako, where Health Minister Diéminatou Sangaré met them.
Since leaving the Ain Borja clinic, where the infants were born on May 4, 2021, they had been residing in a flat with medical assistance in Casablanca, Morocco.
They broke the Guinness World Record for the most children delivered in a single birth to survive.
The babies – five girls and four boys – were conceived using in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment and were delivered by C-section.