[Opinion] Taxi companies by app warn risks in Congress project that seeks to regulate them

The Road Transport Authority announced the launch of a comprehensive campaign to regulate the taxi sector in the capital, Nouakchott, by adopting a unified color for vehicles to visually distinguish them. In a statement, the authority added that taxis will be painted yellow, with the doors marked with an official logo that includes a serial number and the governorate number. The campaign is part of a plan to strengthen and regulate the sector, f…

Taxi companies by application such as DiDi, Uber, inDrive and Cabify expressed their "deep concern" at the possible approval in the plenary of the Congress of an opinion of the Committee on Transport and Communications that seeks to apply to this sector a regulation designed for the public taxi service.Through a statement, they indicated that these mobility platforms "are not transport operators, but technology brokerage companies, whose model a…