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Interior Minister Fathi Bachagha buys himself a $2m official plane

The powerful minister from Misrata has used state funds to buy himself a work plane. This puts him in the same league - almost - as Prime Minister Fayez Sarraj and his rival, Khalifa Haftar. [...] (263 words)

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