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Zawya
10-02-2025
- Business
- Zawya
Iraq awards 5 new city projects
Iraq has awarded five projects to construct new cities in various parts of the country and is planning to offer six other similar projects, an official has said. The five awarded contracts include the 120,000-house Ali Al-Wardi City near Baghdad, which has been awarded to Ora Developers, owned by Egyptian tycoon Naguib Sawiris. 'This is the largest new city in Iraq….its designs have been completed and the project will be launched shortly after it was approved by the cabinet,' said Nabil Al-Saffar, a spokesman for the Construction and Housing Ministry. 'We have plans to offer six new such projects on an investment basis…these cities are part of a strategy by the Ministry to tackle the housing crisis in Iraq,' he told the official Iraqi News Agency (INA) on Sunday. Writing by Nadim Kawach; Editing by Anoop Menon) (
Zawya
05-02-2025
- Business
- Zawya
4 Egyptian firms bid to build Baghdad administrative capital
Iraq has received bids from four Egyptian companies to undertake a project to build an administrative capital in Baghdad similar to the one in Cairo, an Iraqi official has said. The Construction and Housing Ministry is studying those offers but no decision has been reached yet, said Hamid Abed, Director of the Town Department at the Ministry. 'Four Egyptian companies have made offers to execute the administrative capital projects…they include companies undertaking city projects in Iraq as well as similar projects in Cairo,' Abed told the official Iraqi daily Alsabah. He did not identify those companies but said the Ministry has been meeting their representatives to choose the best offer. Officials said in late 2024 Iraq will soon unveil details of the project to build a new administrative capital in Baghdad to house all its government offices. Prime Minister Mohammed Al-Sudani will lay the ground stone for the project, which will be executed over the next few years, they said. 'Al-Rafeel City,' with an area of 265 square kilometres, would accommodate nearly 75,000 people and comprise houses, government offices as well as commercial, education, health and amusement facilities. Last year, Egypt's ORA Developers was awarded the main contract for a new mega residential city 'Ali Al-Wardi, located in the southeast of Baghdad. (Writing by Nadim Kawach; Editing by Anoop Menon) (
