Federation of Arab News Agencies

The Federation of Arab News Agencies (FANA; Arabic: اتحاد وكالات الأنباء العربية (فانا)), a branch of the Arab League, is a membership organization for Arabic-language, national news agencies, currently of 19 members[2] and established in 1975 in Beirut, Lebanon.

[5] 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.

[2][4] 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.

[2] 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.

[7] FANA's official English website has varying current members listed, which include: Non-members (but Arab League members): FANA's current head is Abdullah bin Fahd bin Mohammed al-Hussein.

Joining dates of Arab League members; the Comoros (circled) joined in 1993.
1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s