The Northern Nineveh governorate, of which Mosul is the provincial capital, signed the contract with the company this week, Nineveh's governor Najm Al-Jabbouri told the Iraq Al-Forat news network.

23 December 2019 Iraq has awarded a contract to a Danish company to build 80,000 houses in its Northern Mosul city, an official said in press comments on Monday.

"We have signed an agreement with a Danish company to construct about 80,000 houses in the old Mosul city," he said.

Jabbouri said officials from the company visited the war-ravaged Mosul after the agreement to prepare for the construction of the units in a land plot assigned by the governorate.

He said the project is the first phase of the contract but he did not identify the firm or provide further details of the contract's phases.

(Writing by Nadim Kawach; Editing by Anoop Menon)

(anoop.menon@refinitiv.com)

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