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FIREFLY:Sudani on TV again saying the currency transition will be completed by December the 10th which is our Day of Victory relating back to the war...
FRANK: Pay attention to every word that Sudan says to you because every word I told you is heavily calculated. Every word is heavily measured. They are trying to tell you something...You know very well what he is saying. Congratulations.
Planning: We will start the census next Thursday.. and the Ministry of Interior announces the start date of the curfew and those exempted from it
11/11/2024
The Ministry of Planning announced that it will begin conducting and implementing the population census starting next Thursday.
The head of the Central Bureau of Statistics at the Ministry of Planning, Diaa Awad Kazim, said in a joint press conference with the Ministry of Interior: “The population census will continue until December 10, and the 20th and 21st of this month will be for the census of family members,” indicating that “the enumerators will visit families more than once, and the curfew will gradually be lifted from the areas where the census is being conducted.”
He pointed out that "the practical procedures for the population census will begin next Thursday," stressing that "there is no postponement of the population census and it includes all regions of Iraq and no region or governorate is exempted from it."
For his part, the spokesman for the Ministry of Planning, Abdul Zahra Al-Hindawi, said: “820 thousand counters are participating in the population census. We will draw a new map of data in Iraq.”
He stressed, "We completed the requirements of the population census within a year and a few months, which is something that advanced countries are unable to do," noting that "the curfew is not for security reasons, but rather to implement the census accurately."
The spokesman for the Ministry of Interior, Muqdad Miri, said, "The curfew for the population census begins at midnight on the 20th of this month and continues from the night of the 21st of the same month at 12 o'clock throughout Iraq."
He stressed that "the curfew includes the Kurdistan Region and any region where the census is being conducted will be lifted," stressing that "all Iraqi cities are fully secured to implement the population census."
He explained that "air traffic will be open to everyone, flight reservations will not be affected during the census ban, and trade exchange will continue." LINK
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Article: "Iraq's share in the IMF"
Quote: "When Iraq announced that it had paid off all its debts to the International Monetary Fund last May...It was leaked from the Central Bank that the cash reserve exceeds 110 billion dollars and that the country’s gold reserves amounted to nearly 150 tons...
It is known globally that governments that can get rid of the burden of debt to the Fund and the World Bank are the most successful in managing the affairs of their countries...
Today, Iraq intends to increase its share in the International Monetary Fund by the equivalent of 1.45 trillion dinars, which will support its voting power within the Fund, contribute to attracting investments, create a promising business environment, and achieve real development"
The capital of Iraq’s private banks increased by 7.3%
Shafaq News / The Central Bank of Iraq announced on Monday a rise in the capital of private banks by 7.3%.
The bank said in a report seen by Shafaq News Agency that it recorded an increase in the total capital of private banks operating in Iraq during the first quarter of this year, by 7.3% to reach 19.2 trillion dinars compared to 19.7 trillion dinars for the same period last year.
He pointed out that private banks operating in Iraq increased their capital by 6%, while the capital of government banks increased by 11.1%.
He added that the contribution of private banks’ capitals amounted to 73.2%, while the capital contribution of government banks amounted to 26.2%.
The bank explained that deposits in the first quarter of this year rose by 1.2% to reach 123.7 trillion dinars compared to 122.2 trillion for the same period of the previous year, thus increasing current deposits by 3.1% as a result of the increase in current expenditures from the wages and salaries of employees in the public sector, while savings deposits decreased by 3%, and fixed deposits decreased by 10%.
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