With great fanfare yesterday, the Irish Government made a solemn and happy pronouncement: The nation of Algeria, on the north coast of Africa, is a safe country.
How precisely this determination was arrived at is, alas, shrouded in mystery. A quick glance at the news from Algeria this week provides no clue: The port of Mostaganem, about 200km west of the capital, Algiers, reported an 11% annual growth in commercial revenue on Tuesday morning. On Monday evening, the Algerian Ministry of communications announced to great fanfare an expansion of the country’s total broadband capacity of almost 20%, rising from 7.8 to 9.8 terabits in total.
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