TRANSPORT-AFRICA: Too Many Air Disasters

African airlines have set an ambitious target of reducing by 50 percent the number of accidents by the year 2010.

TRANSPORT: No Consensus on Air Marshals

Opinions are divided over the United States government's decision to require the presence of armed guards on selected international flights that cross into U.S. airspace, to prevent hijackings and terrorist attacks.

ECONOMY-SOUTHERN AFRICA: A Challenging Road Ahead for Truckers

The road transportation business in Southern Africa is fraught with obstacles, in the shape of AIDS and crime. However, industry players say it is also providing opportunities for promoting black empowerment.

ECONOMY-CARIB: Airline Growth Engine Stalls Before Takeoff

The plan was to have a single airline flying the skies of the Caribbean by January 2004, but bedevilled by financial problems, the project has all but ground to a halt.

TRANSPORT: Nigeria Moots the Idea of Banning Night Travel to Curb Accidents

Nigeria is mooting the idea of banning night travels by luxury buses to curb road accidents which are claiming thousands of lives yearly.

NICARAGUA: Plan for Inter-Ocean Canal Reborn

Nicaragua is once again dreaming of building an inter-ocean route - one that would make the Panama Canal look tiny. But the mega-project, which would take 10 years to complete and would cost more than 25 times the national budget, could be catastrophic for the environment, say ecologists.

TRANSPORT: Nigeria Turns to Foreign Contractors

Travellers describe the appalling state of the road in southeast Nigeria as hell on earth.

ENVIRONMENT-CHILE: Activists in Santiago Look to Bogota

The Chilean capital could make as much or even greater headway against air pollution as Bogota was able to make by reorganising its public transport system, but that would require political will, according to the former mayor of the Colombian capital, Enrique Peñalosa.

SOCIETY-IRAN: Tehran’s ‘Taxicyclists’ Ride on the Edge

To harried public bus drivers and dusty traffic policemen here in Iranian capital's chaotic roads, the motorcycle riders are a pesky menace, darting into the flow of vehicles and cheekily out again in clouds of blue exhaust.

TRANSPORT-BRAZIL: Living Dangerously on Two Wheels

Brazil's motorcycle manufacturing industry has grown at a dizzying pace in recent years, analogous to the speed of these two-wheeled vehicles on the country's roads, and serving as an indicator of just how many people are willing to put their lives at risk.

Special Series/ARGENTINA: An Airline for a Dollar

The sale of the state-owned Aerolíneas Argentinas (AA) to Spain's Iberia for a symbolic 1.54 dollars in 1990 has come under heavy criticism ever since, but President Néstor Kirchner, who took office two months ago and has moved quickly to make big changes in some areas, will leave the matter alone - for now.

BANGLADESH: Latest Ferry Deaths Point to Old Problems

A week after the worst ferry disaster in Bangladesh's living memory this month, grief-stricken family members and relatives of the hundreds still missing pace the banks of swollen rivers, clutching on to any hope.

TRANSPORT-NIGERIA: Psychiatric Test for Traffic Offenders

A long stretch of vehicles is caught in a traffic jam on the busy Murtala Muhammed Way in Lagos, where desperate drivers struggle to wriggle out of the chaos to get home.

TRANSPORT-SOUTHERN AFRICA: Opportunities for New Breed of Entrepreneurs

As the highways, bridges, customs offices and the rest of Southern Africa's road transportation infrastructure expands, new opportunities for small business people to enter the freight business are emerging, offering a literal route out of poverty.

ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: A Hybrid Revolution on Wheels

Brazil is hopping on the bus in the new era of electric hybrid vehicles, which some experts say will revolutionise the automobile industry in the coming years, thanks to their energy efficiency and other environmentally-friendly advantages.

TRANSPORT-SOUTH AFRICA: Re-establishing a Culture of Obedience on the Road

What should have been a relatively simple bureaucratic exercise - to issue South Africans with a new type of drivers licence - has seemingly turned into a battle of wills between the government and its people.

TRANSPORT-BRITAIN: London Could Change Cities Around the World

The face of Central London has changed over the past week. And cities around the world are looking now to see if they can change as London has.

TRANSPORT-LATAM: Commercial Airlines in Non-Stop Crisis

The problems plaguing commercial aviation in Latin America, worsened by the Sep 11, 2001 attacks in the United States, are expected to plunge even deeper as a result of the looming U.S.-led war against Iraq.

ECONOMY-HAITI: Gas Price Hike Triggers ‘Warning’ Strike

Political unrest directed against President Jean Bertrand Aristide has been overtaken by economic protests from employers' groups and unions after the government cut its petroleum subsidies, which has nearly doubled the cost of living in just two weeks.

TRANSPORT: Carnage on South Africa’s Roads

Death and destruction on the country's roads are a tradition in South Africa during the festive season - and this year the celebrations have reached new heights.

TRANSPORT-SENEGAL: Relatives of Ferry Disaster Marching in Memory

When the news broke in Dakar in September that the Joola passenger ferry had capsized on its voyage from Ziguinchor hundreds of families and friends of those on board went down to the port to look for information and to pray.