The world’s only nonuplets (nine babies at birth) have safely returned home to Mali after spending one year, and seven months of their lives in Casablanca, Morocco.
The babies were the most children delivered in a single birth to survive in the world.
The nonuplets mother, Halima Cissé was flown to Morocco for intensive care ahead of the record-breaking delivery.
Their father Abdelkader Arby expressed gratitude to the Malian government, when they arrived the Malian capital, Bamako, in the early hours of Tuesday.
“It’s a lot of work but Allah, who gave us this blessing, will help us in their upbringing and taking care of them,” he added.
The babies, five girls and four boys, were born by Caesarean section at 30 weeks, according to the Malian authorities last year.
The girls named Oumou, Kadidia, Fatouma, Hawa, Adama and the boys named Bah, Mohammed VI, Oumar, and Elhadji, weighed between 500g and 1kg (1.1lb and 2.2lb) at birth.
Due to fears they may develop health complications due to their premature birth, they had to spend the first months of their lives in hospital.
They were then moved to an apartment where they received round-the-clock care from the Ain Borja hospital.