MOZAMBIQUE has urged the United States to release $55m it pledged last May to rebuild an important railway that was damaged by devastating floods, the Mozambican transport minister said this week. “It is very important that those funds are released as quickly as possible,” Transport and Communications Minister Tomas Salomao told a press conference. The Limpopo railway, stretching from the country’s biggest port Maputo to landlocked Zimbabwe, is one of Mozambique’s economic lifelines. – AFP