Why are so many women being murdered in Uganda?
Kampala, Uganda - Noah Musiba sat by the door all night listening out for a noise that would signal the return of his wife. His nine-year-old daughter, Sheerat, lay on a mattress on the floor by his feet, wide awake. It was the early hours of Thursday, September 14, and Harriet Nantongo, Noah's wife of 10 years and Sheerat's mother, had not returned from work. "I hoped that maybe she had slept at her sister's place, but when we went to look, she wasn't there," said Noah, "so we started searching all the hospitals". By the afternoon, Musiba reported his wife missing, fearing the worst. For the past year, she had been working at a local rubbish dump, sifting through the garbage in search of polythene bags to wash in a nearby stream. On a good day, she could sell two 15kg bunches of bags and return home with $3 in her pocket on the three-hour walk back to her family. But on Wednesday night, she hadn't come back. In the preceding months, seve...