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The Iraqi minister of health, Majid Hama-Amin, told AKnews that his ministry has allocated $1.5 billion [1.8 trillion Iraqi dinars] to purchasing medicine and medical equipment in 2011. Khalis Qadr, the spokesman for Kurdistan Health Ministry, told AKnews that the Region will also share in this allocation. The medicine especially for the chronic diseases will be […]
The office of the Lord-Mayor of Baghdad has announced on Tuesday the signing of a contract with two companies to implement the largest sewerage project in the Iraqi capital, at a total cost of 68 billion (b) Iraqi dinars [$58 million]. Aswat al-Iraq news agency reports that the contracts would serve 17 housing districts in […]
Two hydro-electric plants in Sulaimaniya province of Iraqi Kurdistan are being renovated at a cost of $40 million [48 billion Iraqi dinars], according to a report from AKnews. Sirwan Mohammed Mahmoud, the media and relations director at Sulaimaniya electricity office, told the agency that the budget to renovate Darbanikhan (pictured) and Dokan dams comes from […]
The volume of waters from the Tigris River reaching Iraq has been receding to the extent that several water purification plants in the Province of Missan [Maysan] are running without water. Mohannad Kadhem, the head of water purification and distribution in the southern province, said the problem started with tributaries belonging to the river feeding […]
A spokesman for the ministry of electricity has reported that plans are being considered to move the national grid underground, in order to prevent citizens illegally taking power supplies directly from overhead distribution lines. Musab al-Mudarres told AKnews that the practice of taking electricity directly from local power lines is widespread across Iraqi, and the […]
[Update: The National Investment Commission (NIC) has issued a statement on 22nd March 2011 on behalf of the Chairman of the Nineveh Investment Commission, denying these reports of contracts signed with South Korean companies.] The Chairman of the Nineveh Investment Commission said on Wednesday that it has signed investment contracts with 20 South Korean companies […]
Iraq is preparing to issue a tender for a $388.5 million power plant, according to a report from Bloomberg. Ali Al-Dabbagh, a spokesman for the government, said on Tuesday that the Council of Ministers approved the plan to issue a tender for the plant in the Nineveh province, north of Baghdad. The plant should be […]
The Scottish Government has given £300,000£ ($480,000, 576 million Iraqi dinars) to the newly established United Nations Trust Fund for Iraq, the first contribution to be made against this Fund. The contribution of the Scottish Government will be allocated to water development in Iraq under the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF). “With this contribution […]
Britain's International Development Secretary, Andrew Mitchell (pictured), announced on Tuesday the key outcomes of two aid reviews and set out the results that UK aid will deliver for the world's poorest people over the next four years. These ambitious reviews of DFID's [Department for International Development] country programmes and funding to international organisations will, according […]
The budget of Iraq's Kurdistan Region for the current year is 13.94 trillion Iraqi dinars ($11.9 billion), Kurdistan's Premier, Barham Saleh, told a news conference in Erbil. This includes 9.687 trillion dinars for 'expenditures and commissioning', 4.15 billion for investment projects, 54 billion dinars for the Kurdistan Parliament's expenditures, 48 billion dinars for the Region's […]
Kurdistan's Ministry of Municipality and Tourism sealed a contract on Monday for the construction of a drinking water supply project for Amedi, in Dohuk province. According to a report from AKnews, the ministry said the minister, Samir Abdullah Mustafa, singed the $90m contract with Ster Group and Homan Ederson. With the project getting underway, the […]
The Chairman of Nineveh Council said this week that a preliminary agreement has been signed with a British company to plan the reconstruction of areas badly damaged by bombing in the Iraqi war. Jaber Abed Rabbo told AKnews that the deal will ensure that the reconstruction of the province conforms to the latest standards of […]
