San Francisco-based Uber Technologies Inc, a company that allows users to summon taxi rides on their smartphones, has said it is expanding to Abuja in Nigeria and Mombasa in Kenya despite reports that a second taxi linked to the service had been torched  in Nairobi.

Uber said earlier in March that it planned to involve regular taxi associations in African cities it expands to in a bid to quell growing revolt against its service across the continent.

The company, which faces similar threats in other countries it operates in, plans to expand to Uganda, Tanzania and Ghana this year.

The latest expansion announcement  by one of the fastest growing tech startup in the world, means that the service is now available in 11 African cities and 400 worldwide — up from just 35 in September 2013 when it launched in South Africa’s capital, Johannesburg .

“Uber is part of a broader evolution in transportation, it is an exciting platform that is changing the way we travel and shaping the future of cities across the world,” htxt.africa quoted Alon Lits, Uber Sub-Saharan Africa General Manager, saying in a statement.

“These cities are progressive, forward-thinking cities that have a need for safe, reliable and efficient transportation and we are so excited to be venturing further into Africa,” Lits added.

According to The Irish Times, four men attacked and badly beat up an Uber driver, before setting his car on fire in a Nairobi suburb early on Thursday. This is the second time a similar incident has occurred in the East African nation’s capital city.

Regular taxi drivers in Nairobi have said before that they would attack Uber drivers operating in the city for taking away business from duly registered operators.

Despite these challenges, the taxi service app company that operates in over 250 cities in the world still sees a huge opportunity in partnering with taxi service operators in African cities.

Lits told AFKInsider on the sidelines of Social Media Week Johannesburg in September 2014 that the global tech firm was “very excited about Africa” and was seeing it as “a huge market”.