Reporters Without Borders (RSF) welcomes the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention’s call for Moroccan journalist Souleiman Raissouni’s immediate release on the grounds that his detention for the past two and a half years has been accompanied by major human rights violations and is therefore arbitrary. He was sentenced to five years in prison in February.
Halima Cissé, the mother whose nine babies arrived in one go, has spoken of her struggles to cope with the record-breaking brood of five daughters and four sons who are now 12 months old.
The Guinness World Record nonuplets celebrated their first birthday last month. The father, who is an officer in the Malian army shares how his wife managed to take care of their babies from weighing less than a kilo (2 lbs) to healthy one-year-olds now.