{"id":279109,"date":"2019-06-17T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CAIiELXCxEIkffnBOdSoNlChILYqGAgEKg8IACoHCAowi4-MATDXsRUwhPieAw?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-30T11:16:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:16:23","slug":"quartz-said-ethiopias-zayride-taxi-app-planned-to-launch-in-liberia-after-addis-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/279109","title":{"rendered":"Quartz said Ethiopia\u2019s ZayRide taxi app planned to launch in Liberia after Addis success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 17 June 2019 Quartz Africa reported that ZayRide, Ethiopia\u2019s first e-hailing taxi service launched in Addis Ababa in July 2016, planned to expand into the Liberian capital as it scaled beyond Ethiopian streets.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-501854\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Addis-Ababa-forced-eviction.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Quartz said Ethiopia\u2019s ZayRide taxi app planned to launch in Liberia after Addis success\" \/>\n<p>The story presented the Liberia move as an early African export of an Ethiopian consumer-tech firm rather than as a domestic transport update alone.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as tech archive, the Quartz report dates ZayRide\u2019s mid-2019 Liberia expansion plan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/africa\/1645894\/ethiopias-ride-hailing-taxi-app-zayride-will-launch-in-liberia\/\">Quartz Africa<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia\u2019s ride-hailing taxi app ZayRide will launch in Liberia&nbsp;&nbsp;QuartzEthiopia&#8217;s first e-hailing taxi *service* is scaling beyond the streets of Addis Ababa. ZayRide, which launched in July 2016, is expanding to the Liberian capital, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":501854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Addis-Ababa-forced-eviction.jpg?fit=966%2C607&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1aBL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279109"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755239,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279109\/revisions\/755239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}