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Uber targets expansion in fast-growing West African markets

Brooks Entwistle, Chief Business Officer at Uber, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Lagos, Nigeria June 27, 2019.

Global ride-hailing firm Uber Technologies Inc is in talks with regulators over plans to expand into two West African countries and provide a boat service in Nigerian megacity Lagos, a company executive said on Thursday.

In much of sub-Saharan Africa there are low levels of personal car ownership, rapidly expanding populations and a lack of efficient mass transport systems in fast-growing cities.

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