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There are about 13 players fighting for a piece of Egypt\u2019s tech-enabled transport market, Rachel Williamson surveys in Wamda. \u201cAll of these companies are targeting the same population: broadly, the 23 [mn] or so Egyptians who have a smartphone, or about a quarter of the country\u2019s population.\u201d 12 are up against Uber and the sector […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7233],"tags":[2386,72],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-649177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egypt-in-the-news","tag-egypt-in-the-news","tag-enterpriseam","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"150e7b17-5164-43c7-82a1-c1d3cd55b787","order":"0","is_powered_by":true,"section_story_id":"8a2a5cf3-231a-4b95-a002-78ece77094e9","story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[649152],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"\nEgypt\u2019s crowded tech-enabled transport market - 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