Rough ride for Uber as cabbies in Morocco sabotage app
Casablanca, Morocco
AS their smartphone screens lit up with ride requests last month, Uber drivers in the Moroccan city of Casablanca must have thought that business was booming.
Instead, they found themselves surrounded by irate local taxi drivers, who forced them from their vehicles and handed them over to the police, the latest in a string of protests in the kingdom against the controversial travel app.
"After the tramway, illegal drivers and now Ub…
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