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Built here.
For here.
By us.

Kairo is a Gambian transport company started by people who got tired of waiting at the garage. We're building the system we wished existed.

10 · OUR STORY

We built this
because we
needed it too.

Getting around The Gambia shouldn't be a gamble. We've all waited too long at a garage, crammed into a beat-up vehicle, or missed something important because transport let us down.

Kairo started with a group chat. Three friends, one school run that turned into a four-hour ordeal, and a stubborn question: why is this so hard?

We didn't want to build an app. The Gambia already has WhatsApp on every phone. What we needed was a system behind the message, real dispatch, real vehicles, real drivers we could vouch for. That's the part everyone was missing.

So we built it. From the dispatch desk in Banjul to the bus on its way to Basse, every piece of Kairo is run by people who live here and ride it themselves.

PHOTO · FOUNDERS AT BANJUL GARAGE
EARLY 2025

The group chat

Three friends start logging every bad transport experience in a shared note. The note hits 120 entries in six weeks.

SUMMER 2025

First test route

One borrowed van, one WhatsApp number, one route between Banjul and Brikama. 40 passengers in the first week.

AUTUMN 2025

Dispatch goes live

A dedicated dispatch desk in Banjul. Two operators, GPS on every vehicle, fixed prices.

Q2 2026

Public launch

Ten daily routes. Seven cities. On-demand and airport pick-up. 500+ people already on the list.

11 · WHO'S DRIVING THIS

The team
behind the line.

Small team, deep roots. Everyone here has logged miles on Gambian roads, most of us still drive shifts when dispatch gets busy. We're here to change the way The Gambia moves.

VOICE · 01
"The cheapest ride in the world is worthless if it doesn't show up. We just want to show up."
— MUSTAPHA NJIE · CO-FOUNDER