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16 Apr 2022
Citing safety concerns, Burundi bans rickshaws, commercial motorcycle taxis and bicycle cabs in Bujumbura, the country's biggest city. Drivers say the move will put thousands out of work. Also, Uganda's only licensed cannabis farm grows only for export, as use of its crop remains illegal in the country. But there are calls for more permits to be granted to smaller-scale growers. And we head to a sanctuary where orphaned and injured primates are nursed back to health in eastern DR Congo.
16 Apr 2022
Burundi on Monday banned rickshaws, motorcycle taxis and bicycle cabs from almost all of its biggest city Bujumbura, accusing the popular low-cost transport providers of causing fatal traffic accidents.
20 Jun 2021
Hop onto your bike and ride along a pop-up cycle path. These new yellow-marked bike lanes have gotten things moving in Berlin. Hastily set up during the burgeoning coronavirus pandemic, to give cyclists more space and safety.
6 May 2021
Princess Diana's old Raleigh Traveller ladies bike has sold at auction to an American buyer for £44,000.
8 Feb 2020
Such is the story of an Indian schoolboy, Subham Soubhagya Agasti who built a petrol-powered bicycle after an Indian law banned under-18s from driving motorcycles. Agasti designed a petrol-powered bicycle with the help of his elder brother Jagabandhu in Bhadrak district, eastern India.
28 Dec 2019
The return of the bicycle: How to get around in the 21st century?
23 Apr 2019
A high school boy from north India designed and built a machine to help clean up the streets, using only scrap and an old bicycle. Jai Prakash Bind, from Mirzapur in Uttar Pradesh state, developed a cycle waste collection machine for sanitary workers, as seen in this clip from April 16.
11 Jan 2019
Buying an imported high-quality bicycle in East Africa can be prohibitively expensive. So, a Ugandan company has decieded to use a local, more natural material, to create affordable frames.
13 Jun 2018
Gerst: 'It's like riding a bicycle'
15 Apr 2017
30 persons win a bicycle and N150, 000 each in indomie scholarship promo.

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