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Uber drivers in the Moroccan city of Casablanca thought it was business as usual but unknown to them something uncanny was brewing.
Uber drivers are been flooded with requests but not from the normal passengers instead, they found themselves surrounded by paid angry local taxi drivers, who forced them from their vehicles and handed them over to the police, the latest in a string of protests in the kingdom against the controversial travel app.
Uber launched in Morocco’s economic hub in 2015 but was banned by local authorities after just one month, due uncleared reasons…
It has recently found itself the target of increasingly brash protests organised by owners of Casablanca’s famous tomato red cabs.
The management of taxis in Morocco normally falls to local government. The transport ministry has so far kept quiet as to why Uber continues to operate in the streets of Casablanca.
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