Uber's Nigerian and Ugandan departures are happening alongside a much larger global restructuring: the company is cutting approximately 3,300 jobs, around 10% of its corporate workforce, aimed at simplifying the organisation and reducing management layers.
That matters because Uber is simultaneously investing heavily in the future of transportation — automation and autonomous vehicles in particular, including its new London and Zagreb self-driving operations — while trimming its conventional corporate structure. The Nigerian and Ugandan withdrawals should not automatically be described as a direct consequence of the global layoffs; both are part of Uber's wider strategic recalibration, but the African exits have separately been attributed to a review of African operations specifically.