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    New infrastructure and uninterrupted electricity.. What is behind the changes that Iraqis are witnes

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    Post by Rocky Mon 15 May 2023, 2:39 pm

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    Under the title "Baghdad Beautifies", a report by the international news agency "Reuters" reviewed major changes that the Iraqis in general and the Baghdadis in particular began to see as they had not witnessed before after 2003, between reconstruction campaigns and the establishment of parks and attention to infrastructure, as well as an unprecedentedly good electrical supply, However, the report did not hide the existence of fears and warned that the situation would not continue as it is, amid questions about what is behind this "insufficient" development compared to what Iraq witnessed in previous years of neglect.
    For the past 15 years, Khader Abbas, 73, a resident of the sprawling Sadr City neighborhood of Baghdad, had to walk an unpaved road covered in mud and dirt to reach his home, where he had difficulty obtaining clean water or sanitation. But that changed in the past month, according to the report.
     
    Excavators, bulldozers and other heavy equipment arrived, cleared the ground for sewers and clean water pipes, and buried them under a layer of asphalt in neat streets and sidewalks.
     
    This scene is repeated across the city of more than nine million people as part of the efforts of the new government of Prime Minister Mohamed Shia al-Sudani to improve basic services for citizens fed up with years of conflict and government neglect.
     
    Analysts say that thanks to high oil prices, relative stability and the support of powerful political factions, Al-Sudani is focused on achieving quick gains to appease a large segment of youth who have staged frequent protests against his political supporters.
     
    The effort includes developing roads, bridges and sidewalks, removing security barriers that make traffic difficult, beautifying the facades of war-damaged buildings, and repairing parks and gardens on the banks of the Tigris River that cuts through the city.
     
    Electricity supplies have also improved and daily outages have almost disappeared in May, when outages are usually the norm, but it is expected that such outages will be repeated in the summer with higher consumption.
     
    In more than two dozen interviews, Iraqis said they feel cautiously optimistic about the future because of recent improvements in infrastructure and stability that have opened the country up to a large number of tourists, mostly from Arab countries.
     
    Many said these changes are the most important they have seen since the US invasion in 2003, but they are still not enough in a country that achieved more than $115 billion in oil sales in 2022 and suffers from rampant corruption that overburdens services.
     
    Sajjad Jiyad, a Baghdad-based fellow at The Century Foundation, said Al-Sudani wants to avoid the idea of ​​protest, which is why he is fixated on the things people can feel (now), not the things that will benefit them 10 years from now.
     
    He added that he wanted to be seen as the man who could achieve in all of Iraq.
     
    * "NEW AND EXCITING"
     
    A major project during Al-Sudani's rule was the construction of a 2.5-kilometer (1.5-mile) corniche along the eastern bank of the Tigris, along Abu Nawas Park, one of the largest green spaces in Baghdad.
     
    The Corniche is equipped with jogging and cycling paths, benches and public bathrooms, and has received crowds of visitors since it partially opened earlier this year.
     
    A woman in her mid-30s, who only gave her name as Umm Ahmed, said that being able to take her son to a park in Iraq was "new and exciting". She added that she believed that such things could be done in France and not in Iraq in any way.
     
    The negatives are still there. The river itself teems with rubbish and sewage that is dumped into it without treatment.
     
    Ammar Musa Kazem, Mayor of Baghdad (mayor of Baghdad), said that the current works are only the beginning, with funding amounting to about 530 billion dinars ($400 million), which has been allocated to the city through the “Emergency Support for Food Security and Development” law of 2022 and not Through the budget, which he said will be approved soon.
     
    He told Reuters in an interview that the effort to develop the capital, Baghdad, is the largest project of its kind.
     
    Baghdad also asked for help from abroad.
     
    Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, visited Iraq last week to sign what she described as a "friendship agreement" with the city.
     
    She told Reuters in a statement that the mayors of the two capitals "are working to address challenges such as water management and the organization of basic services for the population."
     
    * "Baghdad returns"
     
    The Iraqi-Canadian artist, Iyad Al-Moussawi, fled Baghdad as a child at the time of the war with Iran in the 1980s, and did not return until 2019.
     
    He held an exhibition earlier this month in an elegant exhibition center called (The Gallery) in the Karrada neighborhood, his hometown.
     
    "I see Baghdad coming back," Mousawi said, noting that he attended the opening of eight exhibitions in just two weeks.
     
    But many Iraqis still fear that sharp political divisions will erase that relative improvement, or that the resulting economic gains will not reach them in a country where the official unemployment rate is 16 percent.
     
    Nor can many locals afford the city's real estate boom, which is devouring heritage homes and green spaces, and officials say it is funded in part by money laundering.
     
    “There is money and stability in the country for sure,” said Ghazwan Faleh, a garage owner in Sadr City, pointing to a line of unemployed friends smoking in front of his garage. “But what is the use of stability when people can't find jobs or can't afford food?” ".
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