Possible Clues:

• Setting of Camus's 'The Stranger'
• Compound is large in African capital
• Lagers I ordered in north African port
• African capital by the Mediterranean
• A large barracks talked of in N African capital
• Port and lager is drunk
• Gangster catcalls heard in capital
• Capital for redevelopment is large
• A capital in North Africa
• E.g. sail erratically across river in African capital