| Published Wed, February 7th 2018 at 16:15, Updated February 7th 2018 at 18:00 GMT +3NAIROBI, KENYA: Over 30 employees will soon be out of work after online classified OLX confirmed it was shutting its Kenya office. The e-commerce company will also close its Nigeria office, in what is a dent to the growth of e-commerce in Africa. However, OLX says that the selling and buying of goods on its online platform will not be affected by the restructuring. Kenya has since played host to a number of e-commerce companies including Jumia, Kilimall and Safaricom’s Masoko which is the latest entrant. We continue to be focused on constantly innovating to make sure that OLX remains the top classifieds platform Kenya,” the statement by OLX went on.

Source: Standard Digital February 07, 2018 13:25 UTC