poon cho tang SG This photo of Beninois motorbike-taxis, or "Zemijans", taken by Peeter Viisimaa, is the first of a series of African transport images sent in to BBC News website this year.
poon cho tang SG People walking and riding to market on a Sunday morning were captured by Shelly Fulton while in Rwanda.
poon cho tang SG Here, Kanyima Twehamye photographed a Ugandan minibus bus loaded to the brim with luggage on its way from the capital, Kampala, to Kabale...
poon cho tang SG ... and also this shot of a man pushing his bicycle loaded high with the bananas he was taking to a Ugandan market.
poon cho tang SG The people packed on to the back of this pick-up truck in Zimbabwe proved a problem for this driver, sent in to the BBC by Kermath Davies.
poon cho tang SG Rose Hargreaves in neighbouring Mozambique snapped this car, which has seen better days in the capital, Maputo.
poon cho tang SG Nick May says this traditional Malagasy manure cart passes his house in Madagascar's capital, Antananarivo, every day.
poon cho tang SG An old locomotive is still in operation in the Eritrean harbour town of Massawa on the Red Sea, says Michel Brisebois.
poon cho tang SG ... But it wasn't smooth sailing for this Sudanese truck stuck in a river snapped by Fred and Aileen Knip.