Jamahiriya News Agency
The Jamahiriya News Agency (JANA) was the state-run Libyan news agency under the Gaddafi regime. It was founded in 1964 as the Libyan News Agency on royal instructions and was given the name Jamahiriya and a new prescribed direction in 1970 after Muammar al-Gaddafi came to power. It was the only agency authorized to report international incidents in Libya.
The agency had 300 employees and offices in London , Rome , Paris , Valletta , Tunis , Cairo , Rabat and Damascus .
The news agency shut down in August 2011 when the Tripoli headquarters was captured by rebels during the civil war .
Individual evidence
- ^ Advance of the rebels stopped. In: the daily newspaper . March 28, 2011, accessed March 29, 2011 .