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5 years now, How Kampala is accepting the 6 ride-hailing companies to operate. Image via Arabian Business In 2014, SafeBoda opened the door to the ride-hailing industry in Kampala, Uganda. SafeBoda started with five riders. Ricky Papa Thomson , a co-founder of SafeBoda and a former Boda Boda rider was the sixth. Today, SafeBoda is 4 years and some months old and it is the most prominent ride-hailing company on Kampala streets. Thousands of riders have since joined the company. 2 years after SafeBoda’s launch in Kampala, Uber, which had been in Africa for three years, made Uganda its third country for continental expansion after South Africa and Kenya. But unlike SafeBoda which focused on motorcycles, Uber introduced digital hailing of car taxis. A year and four months after Uber entered into Kampala , the Estonia-based ride-hailing company, Taxify, on October 27, 2017, also hit the market to compete with Uber first and later, SafeBoda. In February of...