
Record-breaking Mali nonuplets celebrate their first birthday
CNN
The world-famous nonuplets born to a couple from Mali, West Africa have celebrated their first birthday with a small party at home.
Halima Cissé and Abdelkader Arby welcomed five girls and four boys, weighing between just 1.1 and 2.4 pounds, at the Ain Borja clinic in Casablanca, Morocco on May 4 last year.
Twelve months on, and the nine miracle babies are thriving and reaching developmental milestones, their father, Arby, shared.

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