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History and profile. The BNA was established in 1976 with the name of the Gulf News Agency. [1] In 2001 it was renamed as the Bahrain News Agency. [2] The agency is run under the Ministry of Information Affairs. It is a member of the Federation of Arab News Agencies (FANA). [3]
The IAA also controls the Bahrain News Agency which monitors, originates and relays national and international news in Arabic and English, usually generating from 90 to 150 stories a day. [2] Bahrain Telecommunication Company, trading as Batelco, is Bahrain's sole Internet service provider.
v. t. e. The Information Affairs Authority ( IAA) is Bahrain 's ministry of information that was formed in July 2010. The president of IAA is appointed directly by the King of Bahrain and has the rank of a minister in the Bahrain government. [1] [2] From July 2010 to 2012, Fawaz bin Mohammed bin Khalifa Al Khalifa was President of IAA.
Bahrain News Agency This page was last edited on 7 June 2020, at 21:29 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike ...
News agencies were created to provide newspapers with information about a wide variety of news events happening around the world. Initially the agencies were meant to provide the news items only to newspapers, but with the passage of time the rapidly developing modern mediums such as radio, television and Internet too adapted the services of news agencies.
The NSA director is appointed by the King, has cabinet rank, and is a member of the Supreme Defence Council along with the Minister of Interior. [1] According to the BCHR and opposition, senior positions of the NSA are occupied by relatives of the King, the majority of the agency's employees are non-Bahraini citizens and, despite being a majority of Bahrain's population, Shi'ites make up only ...
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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] In January 1974, the League of Arab States ("Arab League") called for a second conference, held in Baghdad, Iraq, in April 1974.