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KARACHI: The start-up ecosystem in Pakistan had a tumultuous day on Thursday with at least three notable players announcing service suspension, rollbacks and layoffs. Citing shifting economic conditions, prominent ride-hailing service Careem said it has suspended its food service in Pakistan.... It vowed to “ look to restart the service again ” whenever the “ economic condition ” becomes more favourable. The company laid off only one person while the rest were accommodated in the mobility segme

CAIRO: Young men on bikes and scooters zip through Cairo, Egypt’s sprawling megalopolis, dodging cars to deliver more than a million orders each day, with little physical or legal protection. Egypt’s digital gig economy is growing, as economic pressures push more of its key demographic – educated, urban youth – into the work-on-demand model. Engineer Mohamed Sherif, 37, joined online food ordering company Talabat as a bicycle courier in Alexandria three months ago because he couldn’t find a job.