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Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. In 2014, she was designed as Acting Foreign Minister in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Then she moved to Washington D.C. where she began her diplomatic career. Wafa Bughaighis was first Chargé D'Affaires for three years and in November 2017 she was nominated Ambassador. In August 2021 she was removed from her post as her term of office had expired in May 2021.
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