Iraq's Nineveh Governorate needs nearly $7 billion for post-war reconstruction in the first phase of a nation-wide rebuilding plan approved by the government in 2018, its Governor was reported on Sunday as saying.

Najm Al-Jabbouri said Nineveh in North Iraq suffered massive damage during the war a few years ago, mainly its capital Mosul.

He said experts had estimated damage in the housing and construction sector at more than $15 billion, adding that other sectors were also devastated.

"Nineveh now needs around $7 billion for reconstruction at this stage...we have managed to enter partnerships and set up strategic projects and we hope that we will be able to rebuild the governorate through local and international cooperation," Jabbouri told the official Iraqi Alsabah newspaper.

International donors at a conference in Kuwait in early 2018 pledged to provide $30 billion in reconstruction aid to Iraq, which has assessed war damage at $100 billion.

(Writing by Nadim Kawach; Editing by Anoop Menon)

(anoop.menon@refinitiv.com)

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