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.