Asia's tuk-tuks providing a wheel boost to African countries
Monrovia
OMNIPRESENT on the chaotic streets of Mumbai, Jakarta and Bangkok, Asia's three-wheeled tuk-tuk has now come to Africa - and with a two-fold bonus: providing much-needed jobs and slashing accidents.
Cheap to run and safer than the traditional motorcycle taxi, the auto-rickshaw is an increasingly common sight trundling along the traffic-choked streets of the continent's sprawling capitals.
Known in Tanzania and Ethiopia as bajaj, in Egypt as toktok, in Nigeria as keke-marwa and in Sudan as raksha…
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