Femicide manifestations of femicide differ greatly depending on the country. Northern African countries are predominantly Islamic in belief, such as Algeria. In Algeria, as well as some Islamic countries on the African continent, women are regulated to gender-specific rules . One faction of men kill women who do not wear the traditional hijab, while others kill women who do wear the hijab . In this sense, author Rod Kilbeck explains that women become a commodity in the fight between these two factions. One of the biggest health problems in Africa is the epidemic of HIV/AIDS which affects 22.9 million people in
Femicide the goals of many of these authors is to make femicide a separate category. In 2013, COST set up Action IS-1206 entitled "Femicide across Europe". The manifestations of femicide vary greatly. Using Diana Russell's definition, femicide includes intimate partner femicide, lesbicide, racial femicide, serial femicide, mass femicide, honor killing related femicide, dowry and more. Any act of sexual terrorism that results in death is considered a femicide. This includes forms of covert femicide as well, such as criminalization of abortion that leads to death from unsafe abortions, or death as a result of female genital mutilation. One of the most