The Jamahiriya News Agency “Jana” Jana is the official Libyan news agency. It was founded in 1964 by virtue of a government decree, which was amended in 1970 in the aftermath of the revolution. Jana has a staff of more than 300, the majority of which are journalists supported by a number of technicians and administration staff Jana has 10 overseas offices in capital cities such as London, Paris, Rome, Valetta, Cairo, Tunis, Damascus and Rabat as well as a number of correspondents in different parts of the world. Jana also has numerous local bureaus, which are linked to the head-office in Tripoli. It has correspondents in the Shabiat “provincial councils” throughout the Jamahiriya.

Jana has ambitious plans aiming at establishing a number of bureaus in some African capitals and appointing correspondents to cover east, west, central and southern regions of the African continent. Jana is an active member of the Federation of Arab News Agencies “FANA”, the Arab Maghreb News Agencies Pool (Libya, Tunisia, Algiers, and Morocco), and the Alliance of Mediterranean News Agencies “AMAN”. Jana has close ties with the Pan-African News Agency “PANA” which has a regional office in Tripoli where PANA?s Arabic language service is produced. Jana transmits its services by various means including satellite distribution.

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