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[email protected] • www.thepeninsulaqatar.com • 4455 7741 inside Life Itself: CAMPUS Portrait of the • BFPIS students show excellence in Federal critic as a man Board SSC-I, 2014 exams P | 4 P | 8-9 MARKETPLACE • Sana launches Ramadan raffle promotion A local but highly efficient tradition, P | 5 the man-powered wooden scooters are HEALTH everywhere on the • Why it’s such a headache to schedule a paved highways and doctor’s appointment dusty sidestreets of Goma, Congo, holding P | 7 their own with the motorcycle taxis. WHEELS • Audi A6 TDI Quattro: A perfect blend of luxury and common sense P | 11 TECHNOLOGY • Britain hopes to catch up in global robotics race TSHUKUDU, P | 12 LEARN ARABIC • Learn commonly THE ALL-PURPOSE used Arabic words and their meanings TRANSPORT SCOOTER P | 13 2 PLUS | SUNDAY 6 JULY 2014 COVER STORY Man-powered wooden scooters A man stands next to a tshukudu, a wooden push- bike, in Goma. BY ALBERT KAMBALE A man makes a tshukudu in a workshop in Nyirangongo, HAT do you do when you in the Kibumba region. need to deliver several hun- dred pounds of potatoes, 150 stalks of sugar cane, 30 euca- lyptus saplings and eight sacks Wof coal, without motorised transport? For resi- dents of Goma, in the war-scarred east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the answer to this, and many other problems, is the tshukudu. A local but highly efficient tradition, the man- powered wooden scooters are everywhere on the paved highways and dusty sidestreets of Goma, holding their own with the motorcycle taxis.