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70 & A MOM TO TWINS

BY THE age of 70 many women are grandmothers, experiencing the joy of their children’s children without the intensity and responsibility of being a full-time parent.

But to one woman in Uganda, the idea of grandchildren is too remote a concept to even dream of. She’s just delivered twins – and become the oldest woman in Africa to give birth.

For Safina Namukwaya, becoming a mother has put an end to decades of mocking she endured for being childless. Her twins aren’t her first kids: she gave birth to a little girl at the age of 67 but she longed to

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