Construction has started on a $34 million (40 billion Iraqi dinar) residential project in the province of Nineveh, reports AKnews. The 560 homes will be built on an 82-acre site close to the famed waterfall cascades in northern Mosul, in a joint-effort by Iraqiya and Andalusia Construction Companies. Nineveh's Governor, Athil Nujaifi, said the project […]
Archive | 2012
Iraq Stock Market Report
Advertising Feature Rabee Securities Iraq Stock Exchange (ISX) market report (week ending: 2nd Febuary 2012). Please click here to download a table of listed companies and their associated ticker codes. Note: There will be no trading session in the ISX on Sunday, February 5, 2012, due to the religious holiday in Iraq (Maulad al Nabawi/ […]
Philippine Govt Bans Worker Deployment to Iraq
The government of the Philippines has reportedly re-imposed a total ban on the deployment of Filipino workers to Iraq. According to the Philippine Star, the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) chief Hans Cacdac said the agency’s governing board has approved a resolution halting the deployment to Iraq. “Until the security conditions have normalized, a total […]
Terrorists Knock Out Asiacell Service in Nineveh
Bloomberg reports that militants have bombed an Asiacell equipment building near Mosul, damaging the mobile phone operator's network and knocking out service in some northern areas. The four attackers, some of whom wore military uniforms, held guns to the heads of security guards late on Thursday and planted four large explosives in a building housing […]
Jordan/Iraq Border Gas Exploration to Start Soon
Bloomberg reports that BP will start drilling exploratory wells at the Risha natural gas deposit in Jordan, near the border with Iraq, in the coming weeks. Jordanian Energy Ministry spokesman Fayez Abu Gaoud told the agency, “if it is proven that the volume of gas in the field is feasible for commercial purposes, the development […]
Gulfsands Updates Iraq Operations
In its latest corporate update, Gulfsands Petroleum included the following statement on its Iraqi operations: Gulfsands signed a Memorandum of Understanding in January 2005 with the Ministry of Oil in Iraq for the Maysan Gas Project in Southern Iraq, following completion of a feasibility study on the project, and is negotiating details of a definitive […]
8,000 New Houses for Zakho
The Duhok Investment Commission has licensed two housing projects comprising over 8,000 residential units in the distrit of Zakho (pictured), on the Turkish border, according to AKnews. The agency reports that Kurdistan has a shortage of 100,000 housing units, but this project is expected to meet all the requirements of Zakho. The two projects will […]
SGS Loses Iraqi Import Inspection Contract
Iraq’s Ministry of Planning has reportedly canceled its contract with Switzerland's SGS after the company allegedly failed to respond to Iraqi authorities about what they described as “sluggish work”. SGS and Iraq signed a contract in January 2011 whereby the Swiss company provides product conformity assessment services for qualifying products allowing their importation into Iraq […]
Tags: Bureau Veritas, Central Organization for Standardization and Quality Control (COSQC), import, Pre-Importation Inspection Testing and certification of Goods into Iraq (ICIGI), SGS, Switzerland
Iraq Statistical System Modernization Project
As part of UNFPA Iraq Country Office support to the National Statistical System (NSS) Modernization Project in Iraq that falls under the UN joint programme with Government of Iraq on Public Sector Modernization (I-PSM), UNFPA is calling for proposals from consultancy firms/ organizations involved in Statistical Systems reform and modernization to carry out Phase II of […]
Emergency Road Rehabilitation Project in Iraq
The Government of Iraq has received a Credit (IDA Credit No. 42120) from the International Development Association (IDA) toward the cost of the Emergency Road Rehabilitation Project (ERRP) implemented by the Ministry of Construction and Housing (MoCH), and it intends to apply part of the credit proceeds to payments for the consultancy services to prepare […]
Tags: Iraq, Projects in Iraq
Pragmatism Breaks Out in Iraq
There has been a welcome outbreak of pragmatism in Iraq in recent days. While the fact that ExxonMobil will apparently be allowed to take part in the auction for the fourth round oil licences was not entirely unexpected, some will see it as a climb down on the part of Baghdad. Others, such as Hess […]
Brain Drain with No Gain?
By T. Keyzom Ngodup, co-founder at Ideas sYnergy. Ideas sYnergy is Iraq’s first multiple bottom line advisory company committed to inclusive economic and social development through market-based solutions that help build and scale youth-driven innovative ideas for social change. An Economist report rightly pointed out that when people in the developed countries worry about […]