was founded on 15 December 1955 as a joint-stock company owned by the houses of Egyptian newspapers with a capital that did not exceed at that time 20 thousand pounds, then the Egyptian government participated in half a few months later until the decision of the Egyptian Cabinet was issued on February 8th 1956 with the establishment of the agency, and on the twenty-eighth of February, it began distributing its first bulletins using the "Runo" device.