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Essays, guides and yearly data on building startups in Algeria and MENA: payments, e-invoicing, compliance, and AI tooling like MCP servers.

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2026-10-05•11 min read

App Store In-App Purchase Rules for Algerian Apps

Your customers pay with CIB, Edahabia, a CCP receipt, a bank transfer or cash. Apple and Google in-app purchase bills an international card. Here is how to publish an Algerian app with local payments on the App Store and Google Play: which rule your business falls under, how to set up the app and the listing, and what to write in the review notes.

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MCP Too Many Tools? Fixing the Context Window

An MCP server with hundreds of tools burns a fixed slice of the context window before the task even starts, and tool-selection accuracy degrades past a few dozen tools and collapses past a hundred. Here is how I covered all of Google Workspace (871 tools across 28 services) while keeping the idle context cost near zero, and generated the long tail instead of hand-writing it.

2026-07-17
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8 min read

E-Invoicing in Algeria: The e-facture-dz Protocol

Algeria is the last major economy in the MENA region without an e-invoicing standard. An open-source protocol is being built to change that.

2026-04-19
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25 min read

Algeria Startup Ecosystem 2026: Data & Funding

Ground-level analysis of Algeria's 7,800+ startups, $500M in public funding, Yassir's $150M raise, and what founders and VCs need to know.

2026-04-03
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