Namukwaya, who lives in the rural of Masaka about 75 miles west of Kampala, expressed her happiness at the birth of the twins who were delivered on Wednesday at a medical facility in the capital Kampala, where she had undergone fertility treatment.

Doctor Edward Tamale Sali, who oversaw her pregnancy and delivery, told AFP that it was an extraordinary achievement to deliver twins to Africa’s oldest mother at 70 years. He said that the mother and the babies — a boy and a girl — were in good health and under the care of the Women’s Hospital International and Fertility Centre that he established.

Namukwaya said she previously gave birth to a girl in 2020, after being mocked as “cursed woman” who had previously failed to produce a child.

She said her first husband had died in 1992, leaving her without children, and she met her current partner in 1996.

But Namukwaya voiced dismay that her partner has not visited her since she came to the hospital for the delivery.

“Maybe he is not happy that I delivered twins because men don’t want to know you are carrying more than one child in a womb for fear of may be responsibilities that come with that.”