MENA

See also: mena, Mena, mená, menà, menâ, měna, and me'na

English

Proper noun

MENA

1. (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.)
2. (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.[1] Used by the World Bank / IMF from about 1980.[2] Often as "MENA Region" or "MENA region". The MENAFATF (or MENA FATF) was established in 2004.

Anagrams

• -mane, -nema, Amen, Eman, Enma, MEAN, NAmE, NEMA, NMEA, amen, mane, mean, mnae, name, namé, neam, ñame

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Spanish

Alternative forms

• mena

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmena/

Noun

MENA m or f (plural MENAS)

1. (Spain) Acronym of menores extranjeros no acompañados (“unaccompanied foreign minors”).