Emirates News Agency

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Emirates News Agency
وكالة أنباء الإمارات
Government of the United Arab Emirates
HeadquartersAbu Dhabi
Agency executives
  • Mohamed Jalal Alrayssi, Director-General
  • Abdulla Abdulkareem, Head of Media Coverage Department
WebsiteWAM

Emirates News Agency (

Arabic: وكالة أنباء الإمارات, romanized: Wakalat Anba'a al Emarat), also known as WAM, is the official news agency of the United Arab Emirates.[1][2]

History and profile

The WAM was established in November 1976.[3][4] It started an Arabic service on 18 June 1977, and an English service in December 1978.[3]

It is headquartered in Abu Dhabi and is part of National Media Council.[5]

In addition to its national offices, it has international offices in

International Islamic News Agency, the Non-Aligned News Agencies Pool[5] and of the Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA).[7]

The agency has cooperation and news exchange agreements with various news agencies, including the

Petra (Jordan), the Indonesian News Agency, and the Saba News Agency (Yemen).[8] Since 2012, the agency has also been in cooperation with Anadolu Agency (Turkey).[9] WAM launched a Hebrew language service in April 2021.[10]

References

  1. ^ "United Arab Emirates profile". BBC. 27 August 2013. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
  2. ^ "UAE Media Sustainability Index" (PDF). IREX. 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 September 2014. Retrieved 5 September 2014.
  3. ^ a b "About Us". WAM. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
  4. ISBN 978-1-4411-0239-3
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  5. ^
    ISBN 978-1-900724-89-0
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  6. ^ Federation of Arab News Agencies KUNA. Retrieved 5 January 2014.
  7. ISBN 978-1-932705-67-6
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  8. ^ Emirates News Agency (WAM) (Wakalat Anbaa al-Emarat) in Dubai Directory Data Dubai. Retrieved 5 January 2014.
  9. ^ International Cooperation Archived 25 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine Anadolu Agency. Retrieved 5 January 2014.
  10. ^ "UAE launches official Hebrew-language news service". The Times of Israel. 7 April 2021. Retrieved 9 April 2021.

External links

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