She was initially believed to have been carrying septuplets according to multiple ultrasounds which were carried out by the healthcare specialists in both countries.

“All the babies and the mother are in a good health, and safe,” Mali's health minister, Fanta Siby, said in a statement.

The woman has now given birth to five girls and four boys, the government authorities said.

The deliveries were done through the Caesarean section.

Although nonuplets are extremely rare in medical practice, a set of nonuplets were born on 13 June 1971, in Sydney, Australia to Geraldine Brodrick and her husband Leonard.

They were five boys and four girls; two of the boys were stillborn and the last surviving of the babies, named Richard, died six days after birth.

Mrs. Brodrick had two older daughters, Belinda and Jacqueline, both single births.

A set of nonuplets were also born on 26 March 1999, in Malaysia to Zurina Mat Saad.

She had five boys and four girls (Adam, Nuh, Idris, Soleh, Hud, Aishah, Khadijah, Fatimah, and Umi Kalsom), but none of them survived more than 6 hours.