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Malian Woman Gives Birth To Nine Babies In Rare Case Of Nonuplets

A woman from Mali has given birth to nonuplets – nine babies – after a successful operation in Morocco on May 4, Mali's Ministry of Health and Social Development of Mali has announced. Twenty-five-year-old Halima Cisse was expecting seven children after an ultrasound highlighted an extreme number of fetuses in her womb, but received more than she bargained for after giving birth to five girls and four boys via cesarean section at 30 weeks.