A Christian woman was brutally attacked with a machete by her Muslim husband for refusing to convert to his religion, with the attack leading to the death of the woman’s one-week-old twins, it was reported in early February.
Regina Navatovu lived with her husband, Asuman Sekidde, in Bumogolo village in south Uganda. When Navatovu conceived in 2017, Sekidde claimed the children were not his and accused his wife of having an affair. Sekidde had started to threaten to hurt his wife before moving to Kalangala, more than 100km away, in Lake Victoria.
When the twins were born, the husband returned and attacked his wife and the newly-born children with a machete.
