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Chad Officials Resign Amid Sex Scandal


FILE - Saleh Kebzabo, prime minister of Chad, speaks at the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit, Nov. 8, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. On October 18, 2013 he accepted the resignations of two officials involved in a sex tape scandal.
FILE - Saleh Kebzabo, prime minister of Chad, speaks at the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit, Nov. 8, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. On October 18, 2013 he accepted the resignations of two officials involved in a sex tape scandal.

N'DJAMENA - Chad's defence minister and the government's general secretary resigned on Wednesday, an administration spokesman said, after two separate sex tapes purporting to show the men were shared widely on social media.

Prime Minister Saleh Kebzabo accepted the resignations of defence minister Daoud Yaya Brahim and the government's general secretary Haliki Choua Mahamat, Kebzabo's spokesman said in a statement, without giving further details.

The videos, which were circulated on Sunday and Monday, purportedly showed the men engaging in intimate acts with other people.

Reuters could not independently verify the material and was not immediately able to reach either man for comment.

Sex scandals are rare in Chad, a mostly Muslim country with conservative social mores.

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