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- Move part of efforts to build media, cultural ties between regions, LANA says
LONDON: The Latin America News Agency has launched a news service in Arabic, the first of its kind on the continent.
“From now on, all our content — website, video scripts, image data — is fully available in Arabic, in addition to Spanish and English,” the agency said on Wednesday.
The new service was part of the company’s efforts to build stronger “media and cultural ties” between Latin America and the Arab world and “facilitate access to reliable and up-to-date content,” it said.
Millions of people of Arab descent, primarily from Lebanon, Syria and Palestine, live in Latin America, mostly in Argentina, Brazil and Chile.
Based in Argentina, LANA collaborates with several international and regional agencies, including Reuters, The Associated Press, Turkey’s Anadolu Agency and the Saudi Press Agency.
It also distributes multimedia content and describes itself as Latin America’s “first image bank.”