Ghana's transport data problem

The most authoritative public figure on commuting in Accra comes from a 2012 survey. A city of four million is running on transport data old enough to be in secondary school.

Uber is leaving Africa. The problem was never the app.

Uber has exited four African markets in twelve months. Swvl went from $1.5bn to $53m in six. Different mechanisms, same underlying failure - and Accra's own numbers explain why.