{"id":224447,"date":"2026-02-20T00:49:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-government-plans-north-south-rail-line\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T00:49:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:49:37","slug":"mozambique-government-plans-north-south-rail-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-government-plans-north-south-rail-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Government Plans North-South Rail Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Maputo \u2014 The Mozambican government on Tuesday announced the creation of an office to support the construction of a new railway line connecting the north and south of the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The North-South Railway Office (GLNS) will coordinate work on the first railway to connect the country, rather than linking neighbouring countries to the Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The time needed to build this ambitious project is estimated at between six and eight years. The new office will be responsible for promoting, developing&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602180512.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maputo \u2014 The Mozambican government on Tuesday announced the creation of an office to support the construction of a new railway line connecting the north and south of the country. The North-South Railway Office (GLNS) will coordinate work on the first railway to connect the country, rather than linking neighbouring countries to the Indian Ocean. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":224448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,6427,6402,4704,682,257,21384,5212,7366,254],"class_list":["post-224447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-government","tag-line","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-northsouth","tag-plans","tag-rail","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}