{"id":40484,"date":"2019-12-09T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T18:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/jumia-rwanda-quits\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T07:37:01","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T07:37:01","slug":"jumia-rwanda-quits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/jumia-rwanda-quits\/","title":{"rendered":"Jumia Rwanda quits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a press release, Jumia administration announced that starting today until its official closure, it will only deliver to pre-paid requests.<\/p>\n<p>Jumia will keep operating in shipping services through Jumia.rw and they are confident that they will keep leading the market in this sector.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda is the 11th country where Jumia stops its operations after a vigorous start where people dubbed it the \u2018Amazon of Africa\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>In August this year, Jumia met a series of challenges and was dragged to court several times resulting in a loss of $70 million and a reduction in share capital by 14%.<\/p>\n<p>Jumia Food started operating in Rwanda in 2012 and helped people around Kigali who had no time to go to restaurants get their food delivered on their doorsteps.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-33876 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/jumia-food--97442.jpg\" alt=\"Jumia will keep operating in shipping services through Jumia.rw and they are confident that they will keep leading the market in this sector.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jumia Rwanda, a company that deals in food delivery through mobile application has announced it will stop its operations in Rwanda on January 9th, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-40484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40484"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=40484"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=40484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}