Federation of Arab News Agencies


The Federation of Arab News Agencies, a branch of the Arab League, is a membership organization for Arabic-language, national news agencies, currently of 19 members and established in 1975 in Beirut, Lebanon.
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Mission

FANA's mission is to promote cooperation among its members and around the world.
FANA reflects development of similar regional groups including the Alliance of Mediterranean News Agencies, the European Alliance of News Agencies, the and the Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies.

History

Efforts to form a union of Arab national news agencies started on October 28, 1964, in Cairo, Egypt, and resulted in a conference in Amman, Jordan, in 1965. In January 1974, the League of Arab States called for a second conference, held in Baghdad, Iraq, in April 1974. During a third conference in Beirut in 1975, the Federation of Arab News Agencies formed and made Beirut its headquarters, whose founding members came from Jordan, Tunisia, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, and Yemen.

Organization

FANA holds an annual General Assembly every November, while general managers of its national news agency members meet semi-annually. FANA held the 49th Conference of its General Assembly in Abu Dhab in November 2022 with the participation of the 14 news agencies' directors or their representatives.

Members

FANA's official English website has varying current members listed, which include:
  1. Algeria – ⁣Algeria Press Service
  2. Bahrain – ⁣Bahrain News Agency
  3. Egypt – ⁣Middle East News Agency
  4. Iraq – ⁣Iraqi News Agency
  5. Jordan – ⁣Jordan News Agency
  6. Kuwait – ⁣Kuwait News Agency
  7. Lebanon – ⁣National News Agency
  8. Libya – Libyan News Agency
  9. Mauritania – ⁣Mauritanian News Agency
  10. Morocco – ⁣Maghreb Arabe Press
  11. Oman – ⁣Oman News Agency
  12. Palestine – ⁣Palestine News Agency
  13. Qatar – ⁣Qatar News Agency
  14. Saudi Arabia – ⁣Saudi Press Agency
  15. Syria – ⁣Syrian Arab News Agency
  16. Sudan – ⁣Sudan News Agency
  17. Tunisia – ⁣Tunis Afrique Presse
  18. UAE – ⁣Emirates News Agency
  19. Yemen – ⁣Saba News Agency
Non-members :
  1. Comoros⁣ – no national news agency
  2. Djibouti – Agence Djiboutienne d'Information
  3. Somalia – Somali National News Agency

Leadership

FANA's current head is Abdullah bin Fahd bin Mohammed al-Hussein.
FANA's leadership has included:

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