FACT-CHECK: This picture of a man with quadruplets isn’t from Yei

The image posted by Jonglei TV on Facebook claiming a man ran away after his wife gave birth to four children, three girls and a boy, is false.
The post published on 19 September 2025, featured two pictures (archived) one with a young man donning a Cameroonian national football jersey with the four babies in front of him, attached to it, and another picture of the four babies alone.
“Young South Sudanese man in Yei town dumps wife after giving birth to quadruples, 3 baby girls and one boy…,” reads the post in part.
The post gathered 843 reactions, 122 comments and 38 shares in a period of less than 24 hours. The same image was also shared by the Yei town celebrity gossip Facebook page.
A screenshot of the Facebook post by Jonglei TVDebunking the Claim:
This news is published by only this source, and none of the mainstream media did publish it; this raised concern for this publication to investigate the post.
A Google reverse image search (archived) and another Google result and a Google lens integration allows Google users to search Google using an image instead of text to find its origin, discover where it appears online, find visually similar images, and uncover related information. It returns similar images with different explanations and contexts.
On 14 September 2025, Joer Kebe Mamadou, who is based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, posted a similar picture (archived link) on his profile with the words,
“Congratulations to the Ouedraogo couple, parents of 4 children, quadruplets,” he posted (translated from French by Google Translate, original post in French)
A screenshot of the post by Mamadou on the 14th of September in FrenchHowever, the second picture attached is of a woman with four kids, different from the one posted by Jonglei TV.
Ouédraogo is a surname, most common in Burkina Faso, and it refers to the semi-legendary founder of the Mossi Kingdoms.
The image is gaining traction on the internet, with some links here, here, here, and here, but none mention Yei as the place of the incident.
Our Verdict:
The ClarityDesk finds a claim by Jonglei TV that an Equatorian man in Yei ran away from his wife, who gave birth to quadruplets, to be false. The images have been on the internet as early as 14 September 2025 and were first published by a Burkinabe Facebook user, contrary to the 19 September 2025 claim by Jonglei TV.