From Business Insider

Africa has the world’s highest rate of intimate partner/family-related homicide, a crime with a disproportionately high number of female victims, a new United Nations report has found.In Africa, there were 1.7 victims of domestic violence homicides per 100,000 people compared to a global rate of .9. The continent also has the highest female murder rate — 6 victims per 100,000 people, compared to a global rate of 2.7 — but it also has a higher murder rate overall than everywhere except the Americas.

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