Ethiopian twins successfully separated after rare cranial surgery in Missouri

In the long human struggle to give every child a chance at an independent life, two infant sisters from Ethiopia have crossed a threshold that medicine rarely reaches. Hiyab and Wuhbto, born joined at the skull — a condition so rare it touches perhaps one in a hundred thousand births — were separated in a twenty-four-hour surgery at a St. Louis children's hospital this past February. Six months on, the hospital has spoken carefully and with measured hope: the girls are alive, they are learning, and possibilities that were once structurally impossible are now simply uncertain. That shift, from