It'll take a lot of small moves for sure. Some news about acceptance isn't as bullish as you'd expect it to be on the shorter terms (combinations of these sorts of news are good). I think the issue is acceptance normally means the market might need higher levels of liquidity in order to cope with the pressure of it as well as acceptance not being the same as adoption (when stores started accepting cards, I doubt many people had one they could use or trusted the technology - that could be the same with bitcoin in these areas).

I read the news here and read this qute, this is interesting enough:
Source: Bahrain Approves Bitcoin, Crypto Payments For Over 5,000 Merchants

This is very good news, at least, many more regions accepting Bitcoin and also other cryptocurrencies as payment for certain merchants is widening.
However, as @Upgrade00 said, this doesn't mean that this news can really pump the market highly, moreover making this market out of the crypto winter and being to the moon, is not as easy as we think, mate.
This current bearish market is still happening, although the news has been released several hours ago, there is no high impact of this. The crypto winter is still ongoing and this is likely still in the scheme of the bearish era. So, be patient with this current situation.

Based on this data from the year 2020, the population is 1.702 million (2020) and therefore the number of people who will use crypto will be much less.
This adoption is generally good, but it will not change in the long term or quickly.


The number of users among these 5000 points of sale will be less than 1%, which means less than 5 points of sale.

Don't worry, it will be over soon with or without this news of adoption. Note that the market enters a cycle and that's why it's assuring that this winter is going to end soon.
And once it's done, there we go again to the bull run for which many will be hyped for sure. But for this news, it's a good one and with the number of POS in their country. It means wide adoption is at range and ready to get introduced to its citizens.

One good news is coming from Bahrain, and soon, the other good news will come for crypto, and that could be the sign to see the next trend. But I admitted that crypto needs more good news to lift the price bounce to the up trend again because the bearish trend still appears on the market. But this is good news for crypto. At least Bahrain people have the other payment gateway option when they want to use crypto itself. We still need to be patient to wait for the market moves higher.

It is really a welcomed development considering the rigidity of most countries in the Middle East. These Islamic nations are so strict in accepting changes because of their Islamic law. But Bahrain has recently become a pacesetter in the crypto space. The country is considered one of the freest economies in the Middle East because of its recent flexible economic policies. Although the impact of this news on the bitcoin space might be insignificant, yet it is indeed a win for the industry. The population of Bahrain might be small but they can help spread the message of the benefit of bitcoin in their region. Maybe other countries in that region might also consider taking the same step.      

That is good move for Africa. If we think about it carefully then implementing such kind of payment processors is not really big thing and crypto can be or could have been merged already if governments would have loosen up some strict rules following the use of it. I wish services like EazyPay becomes available throughout the world. There are so many apps, easy to scan payment systems, contactless cards and much more which could be easily used to pay off via Crypto Currencies. All you need is your wallet linked to a plastic card and there you go, just swipe/touch and pay the payment. Though there have been many such services already, the only problem they are not getting popular is because of the borders regulations and their restrictions on using them. I am afraid EazyPay might struggle with such net of rules and regulations. Let us hope they wont and get to set an example of using crypto in real world.

The general state of the world economy isn't good and Bitcoin can't grow in such conditions. The prices for gas and electricity are going through the roof, and as a consequence, prices rise for almost anything you can think of. If you told someone in the Western Europe they will struggle to pay their bills next year, they would probably laugh at you. But to some, that is exactly what is happening. So, people have to break their piggy banks and unfortunately sell assets such as bitcoin they intended to hold much longer.   

I think we will need to be patient and it will take a while before better days will come.