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Ride-hailing app Careem has had to remind<\/a> taxi drivers still suing it for basically existing in Egypt and providing better services than them that it currently provides the opportunity for 42K white taxi drivers to use its app \u2014 an initiative the company had announced last September<\/a>. The case was launched a year ago, back when they were also harassing and publicly assaulting Careem and Uber drivers. We see this totally going well for the taxis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ride-hailing app Careem has had to remind taxi drivers still suing it for basically existing in Egypt and providing better services than them that it currently provides the opportunity for 42K white taxi drivers to use its app \u2014 an initiative the company had announced last September. 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