MENA

Proper noun

 * 1)   a Cairo-based news agency, established 1955, nationalized and affiliated to the Egyptian Ministry of Information in 1960.

Usage notes
In use since the 1970s by the IPPF. Used by the World Bank / IMF from about 1980. Often as "MENA Region" or "MENA region". The MENAFATF (or MENA FATF) was established in 2004.