In Wamda...
"how 5 teenagers built one of Algeria's biggest websites":
The story of Algeria's eighth most visited website started eight years ago when police showed up to shut down a suburban street market. For decades the market would regularly pop up on a street called Oued Kniss in the Algiers suburb of Kouba. People would buy, sell, and swap anything they could imagine, from television sets to carpets. "It was really nice," remembers Mehdi Bouzid.
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