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Suzuki cars branded with Uber stickers in a showroom in Nairobi. [Photo: Reuters]
NAIROBI - At Suzuki Motor Corp’s showroom in the Kenyan capital, hundreds of its Alto compact cars are waiting to be collected.
Most of the customers are drivers for ride-hailing company Uber Technologies which struck a loans and discount deal with the Japanese carmaker and South Africa’s Stanbic Bank at the beginning of the year.
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