You might think that in the world’s least-developed nation they would at least has the world’s least-developed traffic jams. You’d be wrong.

The worldwide trend toward urbanization is hurtling forward in Sierra Leone, too, helped along by the wartime displacement of hundreds of thousands of people. Experts estimate that more than a quarter of the nation’s six million people now live in Freetown – that’s more than a million people in this incredibly under-developed city.

So you can imagine what rush hour traffic is like in a city with few paved roads, no public transport and only a tenuous rule of law. Oh, and did I mention the diesel fumes?