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The BBC has reported that the of children in Uganda as sacrifices for wealth and health is increasing. The news says the ritual “was almost unheard of in the country until about three years , but it has re-emerged, seemingly alongside a in the country's economy”. In 2006, there was just one case of child sacrifice in the country. However, police records this is increasing. In 2008, police investigated 25 ritual murders, and in 2009, another 29 killings. In , Uganda launched the Anti-Human Sacrifice Police Task Force to try and put an to the murderous rituals. Undercover BBC journalist Chris Rogers reports 900 more cases have yet to be investigated.

The sudden in the ritualistic killings coincides with Uganda’s economic boom. Many the country's new elite is paying witch doctors amounts of money for the sacrifices to increase their wealth. The BBC interviewed pastor Peter Sewakiryanga about the child sacrifice. He said: "[It] has because people have become of money.…They have a belief that when you sacrifice a child you get wealth, and there are people who are to buy these children for a price. So they have become a commodity of exchange, child sacrifice has become a business." A witch doctor explained he got $390 for an sacrifice but much more for the most powerful - the sacrifice of a .