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Uganda GBV Tracker

9 indexed fatal people · 4 indexed serious non-fatal events

Reviewed 25 October 2026 · published 26 October 2026 · coverage from 1 August 2026. This is an incomplete, nonprobability public-source register. It cannot estimate national incidence, prevalence or perpetrator distributions and must not be used to rank countries.

Fatal figures count people; serious non-fatal figures count distinct events. Research leads are excluded. August and September’s calendar periods have ended; this incomplete register remains open to late reports and corrections. October remains in progress.

Start with: Monthly evidence ledger → for the month-by-month picture, or Counted case index → to inspect individual indexed records. Uncounted research leads and corrections remain further down the page.

Monthly evidence ledger

Month	Fatal people	Non-fatal events	Cumulative fatal people	Cumulative non-fatal events
August 2026	3	2	3	2
September 2026	3	2	6	4
October 2026	3	0	9	4

Zero indexed means no qualifying dated record entered here, not zero violence. Incident/death dates determine the month; documented discovery can be an explicitly provisional proxy. Article, arrest and court dates alone never determine occurrence month.

Reported actor and victim gender

Fatal allegation pairing	People; denominator 9
Man alleged → woman/girl	7
Woman alleged → girl	2

Non-fatal denominator: 4 events. Four events: three male-actor events and one female-actor event. Survivor groups comprise one adult woman, one girl, one three-child event, and one household event involving a woman and boy.

These categories describe this register only. Unknowns remain in the denominator. An allegation, charge or police attribution is not a finding of guilt.

Counted case index

Stable case ID · open history	Person or safe identifier	Unit
UG-GBV-2026-001	Kolodina Nyiramuhirwe, 34	Fatal person
UG-GBV-2026-002	Kampala child A · identity withheld	Fatal person
UG-GBV-2026-003	Kampala child B · identity withheld	Fatal person
UG-NF-2026-001	Kampala child-survivor group · identities withheld	Distinct non-fatal event
UG-NF-2026-002	Buikwe child survivor · identity withheld	Distinct non-fatal event
UG-GBV-2026-004	Nalongo Patience Ainembabazi, 33	Fatal person
UG-GBV-2026-005	Juliet Kinyoyozi	Fatal person
UG-NF-2026-003	Mbarara adult survivor · identity withheld	Distinct non-fatal event
UG-GBV-2026-006	Karamoja child · identity withheld	Fatal person
UG-NF-2026-004	Karamoja household survivors · identities withheld	Distinct non-fatal event
UG-GBV-2026-007	Annet Namusoke	Fatal person
UG-GBV-2026-008	Central Uganda adult woman · identity withheld	Fatal person
UG-GBV-2026-009	Wakiso adult woman · identity withheld	Fatal person

4 source-linked research records remain outside the dated totals; they include undated, unclassified and out-of-coverage leads.

August 2026 · individual histories

Kolodina Nyiramuhirwe, 34 · UG-GBV-2026-001

Category: Fatal person · Incident/discovery: 7 August 2026 · District: Kyankwanzi.

Victim/survivor gender: Woman · Reported actor: Man; husband Emmanuel Nshimimana, alleged · Evidence: Reported; police account attributed.

Uganda Radio Network interviewed a police spokesperson and reported that Nyiramuhirwe was allegedly killed in the home she shared with her husband and an infant daughter. Police said neighbours and leaders described earlier disputes; those accounts do not establish formal prior complaints.

Justice follow-up: Husband arrested and held for investigation as of 9 August; court disposition not independently established. Limits: An arrest and a police allegation are not a conviction; the couple’s infant is not counted as a non-fatal victim.

Source trail: Uganda Radio Network · 9 Aug · Checked: 13 September 2026 · Return to month

Kampala child A · identity withheld · UG-GBV-2026-002

Category: Fatal person · Incident/discovery: 20 August 2026 · District: Kampala.

Victim/survivor gender: Girl · Reported actor: Woman; mother Dorothy Namayo, alleged · Evidence: Police-confirmed death; GBV connection provisional.

Police reported that two children died in a reported attack on five children at their Kampala home. The child died at the scene. A later police update says the mother described ongoing domestic violence with her husband; he also acknowledged such violence. These are attributed accounts, not an established explanation for the attack.

Justice follow-up: Mother in hospital under police guard, interviewed on 22 August; police said prosecution would follow its investigation. Later court outcome not established. Limits: Count one fatal person. This is child-directed family violence within a police-reported domestic-violence context; whether sex or gender was a motive is unresolved. Child name and image withheld.

Source trail: Uganda Police · 20 Aug · Uganda Police · 24 Aug · URN · 20 Aug · URN · 8 Sep · Checked: 13 September 2026 · Return to month

Kampala child B · identity withheld · UG-GBV-2026-003

Category: Fatal person · Incident/discovery: 20 August 2026 · District: Kampala.

Victim/survivor gender: Girl (URN report; police follow-up gives no explicit gender) · Reported actor: Woman; mother Dorothy Namayo, alleged · Evidence: Police-confirmed death; identity conflict and GBV connection under review.

The second child in the same Kampala attack died after being taken to hospital. The original police statement and Uganda Radio Network used one name and an exact age; the police’s 24 August follow-up used a different name and did not restate her age. The tracker withholds both versions while identification is clarified.

Justice follow-up: Same investigation as UG-GBV-2026-002; the second death remains a distinct fatal person, not a second killing event. Limits: The difference between source names and ages is explicit. Do not substitute one reported identity for another or identify the child by photograph.

Source trail: Uganda Police · 20 Aug · Uganda Police · 24 Aug · URN · 20 Aug · Checked: 13 September 2026 · Return to month

Kampala child-survivor group · identities withheld · UG-NF-2026-001

Category: Serious non-fatal event · Incident/discovery: 20 August 2026 · District: Kampala.

Victim/survivor gender: Three children; genders not independently confirmed · Reported actor: Woman; mother Dorothy Namayo, alleged · Evidence: Police-confirmed serious injuries.

Police recorded three other children injured in the same Kampala attack and treated in hospital. Its 24 August update said two had been discharged and one was stable in hospital. The non-fatal ledger counts the assault on the three survivors as one distinct event, not three incidents; the two deaths stay exclusively in the fatal ledger.

Justice follow-up: Police investigation continuing at last official update; survivor care and subsequent justice outcome not established. Limits: The initial account listed conflicting exact ages; the update identifies discharged children with different exact ages. Withhold precise ages until reconciled. Do not name living children.

Source trail: Uganda Police · 20 Aug · Uganda Police · 24 Aug · Checked: 13 September 2026 · Return to month

Buikwe child survivor · identity withheld · UG-NF-2026-002

Category: Serious non-fatal event · Incident/discovery: 20 August 2026 (Thursday before Sunday 23 August report) · District: Buikwe.

Victim/survivor gender: Girl · Reported actor: Man; police officer, allegation under investigation · Evidence: Reported; police spokesperson attributed.

Daily Monitor quoted regional police spokesperson Hellen Butoto confirming that an officer was detained over alleged sexual abuse of a child. Police said the alleged incident occurred the preceding Thursday and the child was placed under the Child and Family Protection Unit. No claim of guilt or forensic finding is made.

Justice follow-up: Officer arrested and investigation pending at the time of the report; charge and court outcome not established. Limits: Keep the survivor unnamed and do not imply the allegations are proved. A source report date of 23 August is distinct from the alleged 20 August event.

Source trail: Daily Monitor · 23 Aug · Checked: 13 September 2026 · Return to month

September 2026 · individual histories

Nalongo Patience Ainembabazi, 33 · UG-GBV-2026-004

Category: Fatal person · Incident/discovery: Discovered 6 September 2026; death estimated days earlier · District: Mityana.

Victim/survivor gender: Woman · Reported actor: Man; husband suspected and sought · Evidence: Corroborated accounts of preliminary police investigation.

Daily Monitor and New Vision reported that police found Ainembabazi dead in her locked home. Investigators suspected a partner killing and sought her husband. The date of discovery is used as a provisional September proxy; the precise date and forensic cause of death have not been published.

Justice follow-up: Husband being sought as of the 7 September reports; postmortem and court outcome not verified. Limits: Police suspicion does not establish the husband’s culpability. If a confirmed death date falls in August, retain the ID and move its month with a public correction.

Source trail: Daily Monitor · 7 Sep · New Vision · 7 Sep · Checked: 13 September 2026 · Return to month

Juliet Kinyoyozi · UG-GBV-2026-005

12 September 2026 · Kalangala District · Fatal person · Reported actor: man · Victim: woman

Daily Monitor reported, citing regional police spokesperson Twaha Kasirye, that Kinyoyozi was killed during an alleged domestic dispute in Kalangala District on 12 September. Her husband was arrested and police opened a murder investigation. This is a reported allegation, not a finding of guilt.

Justice: Suspect in custody; murder investigation reported; postmortem and court outcome pending. Privacy: Exact age, landing site, home details and identifying images withheld.

Daily Monitor · 13 September 2026

Mbarara adult survivor · identity withheld · UG-NF-2026-003

8 September 2026 · Mbarara · Serious non-fatal event · Reported actor: man · Survivor: woman

Police reported that an adult woman was seriously injured in an alleged attack by her husband during a domestic dispute in Mbarara on 8 September. She received hospital care. The suspect was detained while police investigated and sought a mental-status assessment. Count one event.

Evidence: Daily Monitor quotes police; copies derived from that report are one source lineage. Privacy: Name, exact age, cell, hospital and identifying details withheld.

Daily Monitor · 9 September 2026

Karamoja child · identity withheld · UG-GBV-2026-006

Date basis: 20 September 2026 · Unit: One fatal person

Reported actor: Man; father alleged · Victim/survivor: Girl

Police reported a man assaulted his wife and children during the night of 20 September. A girl died; a boy was seriously injured and the woman was also reportedly assaulted. Count one fatal person and one linked non-fatal household event with two surviving victims. Police opened a murder inquiry and were seeking the alleged attacker when reported.

Evidence: Reported allegation; responsibility unadjudicated

Linked to UG-NF-2026-004. Broad region retained because district descriptions conflict; all family identities withheld.

Sources: Daily Monitor, 20 September · Reviewed: 11 October 2026.

Open occurrence-month ledger

Karamoja household survivors · identities withheld · UG-NF-2026-004

Date basis: 20 September 2026 · Unit: One distinct non-fatal event

Reported actor: Man; husband/father alleged · Victim/survivor: Woman and boy; two survivors in one event

Police reported a man assaulted his wife and children during the night of 20 September. A girl died; a boy was seriously injured and the woman was also reportedly assaulted. Count one fatal person and one linked non-fatal household event with two surviving victims. Police opened a murder inquiry and were seeking the alleged attacker when reported.

Evidence: Reported allegation; responsibility unadjudicated

Linked to UG-GBV-2026-006. Two linked survivors do not create two non-fatal events.

Sources: Daily Monitor, 20 September · Reviewed: 11 October 2026.

Open occurrence-month ledger

October 2026 · individual histories

Annet Namusoke · UG-GBV-2026-007

Date basis: 2 October 2026 · Unit: One fatal person

Reported actor: Man; partner suspected · Victim/survivor: Woman

Police reported that Namusoke was killed during a suspected domestic-violence attack in Kiboga District on 2 October. Her male partner was being sought when reported. No later custody or court outcome has been verified.

Evidence: Reported allegation; responsibility unadjudicated

Both reports derive from regional police; treat them as one source lineage.

Sources: Daily Monitor, 2 October · Nile Post, 3 October · Reviewed: 11 October 2026.

Open occurrence-month ledger

Uncounted and undated research records

All records in this section are excluded from monthly and cumulative totals. A case-style ID does not imply that a record is counted.

Kairu Patricia · Wakiso · UG-LEAD-2026-001

Police report a body recovered on 4 August, but their September update identifies phone-possession leads and no partner, sexual or gender-related motive. Keep the homicide outside this GBV count unless investigation establishes a nexus.

Source: Kairu

Kabagenzi Angela · Kagadi · UG-LEAD-2026-002

Police report two sons held after the child woman’s body was found on 5 September. Kinship alone does not demonstrate a gender-related motive or a preceding abuse pattern, so this remains an uncounted family-homicide lead.

Source: Kagadi

Eastern Region child · child identity withheld · UG-LEAD-2026-003

Uganda Radio Network reports an arrest in a pupil’s murder but its freely available extract does not establish the child’s gender, the incident date or a GBV nexus. Do not classify the death by age alone.

Source: Kween

Mityanan adult woman · identity withheld · UG-LEAD-2026-004

A police spokesperson said an adult woman was found dead after an apparent self-inflicted fire on 10 September following a marital dispute. The report does not allege that another person caused her death through GBV. Retain this as an uncounted lead pending postmortem or investigative evidence.

Source: Nakagulire

Evidence and policy follow-up

Linked household records use different units: fatalities are people; one episode affecting multiple survivors remains one non-fatal event.

These are documentation and follow-up recommendations grounded in the listed records, not a prevalence comparison or a finding of institutional failure.

Policy context and survivor support

Uganda’s Domestic Violence Act, 2010 sets a legal framework for protection and relief. The Uganda Police Annual Crime Report 2025 is a separate administrative dataset and should never be added to this 2026 case register. On 1 September 2026, Uganda Police described a GBV case-management training course; the course does not establish responses in any listed case. Sauti 116 offers support to children and GBV survivors; for immediate danger, contact local emergency services. No indexed victim’s use of a helpline is known.

Methodology and safeguarding

Start 1 August 2026. Count each GBV-related death as one person; count each serious non-fatal attack as one event, even if several people survive it. Fatal victims never reappear as non-fatal incidents. The Kampala attack creates two fatal person records and one non-fatal event record, all tied to the same underlying event. Keep case IDs stable through later updates and deduplicate reprinted reports.

Assign a month by incident or death date; use a documented discovery date as a provisional proxy only when the death date is unknown. A report, arrest or court date never becomes an incident date. Retain attributed allegations, distinguish known victim/actor gender from unverified assumptions, and exclude cases with no credible GBV nexus. This is an incomplete, nonprobability public-source register. It cannot estimate national incidence, prevalence or perpetrator distributions and must not be used to rank countries.

Do not identify child survivors, publish child photos or precise homes, or treat a family member’s account as a forensic conclusion. Use no graphic images. Source status describes support for the event, while the GBV classification and guilt may remain unresolved. Report corrections privately through the evidence submission form.

Corrections and version history

Initial Uganda edition · 12 September 2026: August 3 fatal people and 2 serious non-fatal events; September through 12th 1 fatal person and 0 dated non-fatal events. Four additional leads or exclusions are not counted. This is the first Uganda release and makes no revision to a previously published Uganda total.

13 September 2026 · UG-GBV-2026-005: New fatal case. September fatal people 1→2; cumulative fatalities 4→5.

13 September 2026 · UG-NF-2026-003: New serious non-fatal event. September events 0→1; cumulative events 2→3.

13 September 2026 · UG-LEAD-2026-004: Original Uganda Radio Network source added; Observer copy identified as syndication; privacy wording generalized; totals unchanged.

Kampala source discrepancy documented in the initial edition: The original police and news accounts published conflicting identifiers and age information for the children. The public record therefore uses anonymous labels and does not settle those discrepancies. Both source versions refer to the same two deaths and three survivors; totals are unchanged.

For any future material change, retain the case ID, date, previous and new claims, source, reason, and the effect on monthly and cumulative counts. Revisit suspected culpability, Kampala’s GBV nexus and child identification, Mityana death date, and the justice outcome for every record.

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13 September 2026 · privacy review: Exact child ages and small-locality headings generalized; totals unchanged.

Publication correction · 11 October 2026

UG-GBV-2026-006 / UG-NF-2026-004: linked household records added; September 2 fatal / 1 non-fatal → 3 / 2. UG-GBV-2026-007: October fatal person added.

Cumulative since August: 5 fatal people / 3 non-fatal events → 7 fatal people / 4 non-fatal events. Sources and individual date decisions appear in the linked histories.

Country-by-country source map · Public change log

Related records

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November 2026 ledger: Open November 2026 records. The November register is open for verified additions; no incident should be inferred from the absence of indexed records.