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.
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People walking and riding to market on a Sunday morning were captured by Shelly Fulton while in Rwanda.
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Here, Kanyima Twehamye photographed a Ugandan minibus bus loaded to the brim with luggage on its way from the capital, Kampala, to Kabale...
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... and also this shot of a man pushing his bicycle loaded high with the bananas he was taking to a Ugandan market.
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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.
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Rose Hargreaves in neighbouring Mozambique snapped this car, which has seen better days in the capital, Maputo.
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Nick May says this traditional Malagasy manure cart passes his house in Madagascar's capital, Antananarivo, every day.
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An old locomotive is still in operation in the Eritrean harbour town of Massawa on the Red Sea, says Michel Brisebois.
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In neighbouring Ethiopia, Ulrik Pedersen took this photograph of a camel caravan.
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This picture of a ferry crossing a river in Sudan was sent in by Abdelsattar Ali...
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... But it wasn't smooth sailing for this Sudanese truck stuck in a river snapped by Fred and Aileen Knip.