MENA
English
Proper noun
MENA
- (politics) Initialism of Middle East News Agency (a Cairo-based news agency, established 1955, nationalized and affiliated to the Egyptian Ministry of Information in 1960.)
- (politics) Initialism of Middle East and North Africa.
- 2006 "The MENA region is anything but stable today" (A. H. Cordesman, K. R. Al-Rodhan, The Changing Dynamics of Energy in the Middle East, →ISBN, p. 65)
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.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmena/
Noun
MENA m or f (plural MENAS)
- (Spain) Acronym of menores extranjeros no acompañados (“unaccompanied foreign minors”).
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