WATCH | Record-breaking nonuplets celebrate their second birthday at home

For the first time, Fatouma, Kadidia, Hawa, Adama, Oumou, Bah, Mohammed, Oumar and Elhadji, the world’s only nonuplets, had their birthday at home.

"I thank God for allowing me to celebrate my children's two-year birthdays at home, in Mali," 27-year-old Hailma Cisse said to AfricaNews.

Cisse was expecting seven babies, and due to the complexity and special care needed for that exceptional multiple pregnancy, the doctors in Mali - under government orders - decided to transfer her to a clinic in Casablanca, Morocco, where on May 5th 2021 the young mother gave birth to nine instead of seven kids: five girls and four boys.