Iraq buys electricity from neighbors

Sara Johnson · April 7, 2011

Thursday, April 7th 2011 8:54 PM

Nineveh, April 7 (AKnews) The Chairman of the Electric Committee in Nineveh

province said Thursday that 28 billion Iraqi dinars were allocated to buy

electricity from neighboring countries, because of the shortages that the

government is unable to provide and meet the needs of the city.

Mohammed al-Jabbouri told AKnews that the committee approached Turkey and Syria

and asked them to provide Nineveh with the electrical stations.

"The countries showed their approval to cooperate in this regard, and the

coming days will witness significant improvement in providing power of the

population of the province to eliminate the shortages that the people of

Nineveh suffer from since several years."

Nineveh, the second biggest Iraqi provinces, is witnessing severe shortages of

electric power, where the hours of power cuts reach in some cases to 10 hours a

day, thus causing great problems to some laboratories and factories that have

closed causing an increase in unemployment.

Hundreds of families of Nineveh came out in several peaceful demonstrations to

demand the provincial council of providing electric power that the citizens are

suffering from its scarcity.

The Federal Government granted powers to the councils to provide electricity

through importing from neighboring countries which have common borders with

these provinces.

Reported by Rizan Ahmed

RN\GS AKnews

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