The Minister of Defense, Cristóvão Chume, said that the groups terrorizing the province of Cabo Delgado are among the most aggressive and radicalized on the African continent, a position with which some political analysts do not agree, who consider that the merit of the minister's words is to recognize the weaknesses of the state.

Chume, who was speaking at a scientific conference to discuss terrorism in Cabo Delgado, wondered "how did a group of young people from Mocímboa da Praia attack a police station and become a symbol of insurgency in Mozambique, constituting today one of the most radicalized groups on our continent and even one of the most aggressive operating in Africa?"

The reactions were not long in coming, and sociologist Moisés Mabunda believes that the atrocities committed by Boko Harami in Nigeria and by other terrorist groups in other countries do not differ much from those committed by the jihadists in Cabo Delgado.

For this political analyst, the words of the Minister of National Defense have the merit of recognizing that there are weaknesses, "because, really, our defense and security forces are weakened, and that is why a group of young people went to attack the police station in Mocímboa da Praia.

Mabunda points out that weaknesses will prevail as long as the country does not have armed forces capable of dealing with situations like these, and stresses that the forces of the Southern African Development Community and Rwanda will one day have to leave Cabo Delgado.

The political analyst Francisco Matsinhe says he does not agree with the position of the Minister of Defense and stresses that the atrocities committed in Mozambique are equal to those committed in Mali, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Chad, and Somalia.

"But for me, in our specific case, the important thing is to try to understand the motivations of the terrorists," concluded Francisco Matsinhe to VOA.

This week, the President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, said that the proliferation of bombs in Sofala is enabling terrorist financing schemes in Cabo Delgado, without, however, giving details.

Yesterday, the Government approved a strategy to combat hotbeds of terrorist financing.