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Ad Diwaniyah

(äd dēwän`ēyä), city, S central Iraq, on a branch of the Euphrates River and on the Baghdad-Basra railroad. It is a marketplace for dates and grains.

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Ad Diwaniyah

a city in Iraq, on the Hillah River, an arm of the Euphrates. It is the administrative center of Kadisiya Mukhafaza (district). Population, 60,600 (1965). It is linked with Baghdad and Basra by railroad and highway. Ad Diwaniyah is the commercial center of a rich agricultural region producing grain (chiefly rice) and dates.

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Two 50 MW facilities will be based in Wasit, in eastern Iraq, while the governorate of Muthanna will see two projects of 50 MW and 30 MW- 80 MW in total and the final 50 MW will be at Al Diwaniyah.

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The number of displaced people in the three most affected governorates, Baghdad, Al Diwaniyah and Babylon is more than 660 000, more than half of whom are children and are now in danger of contracting Cholera.

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Iraq plans to invite foreign investors to build a new civilian airport in the Al Diwaniyah governorate, a top official was quoted as saying in a report.

The project will come up in southwest Al Diwaniyah, Governor Ammar Al Madani said, according to a Zawya Projects News report.

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"I live in a Shiite prov-ince, and if a Sunni candidate from Al Anbar ran for elections here, I would give him my vote, if he offered a good campaign to fight the corrupt administration here in the city of Al Diwaniyah. Iraqi voters are more aware now, and would less likely reject a candidate for sectarian reasons," said Gazi Al Nadawi, a local merchant.