Lesotho murder rate ranked sixth worst in world as judicial system breaks down

Killings of police officers in tiny mountain kingdom has added to sense of lack of consequences', say analysts

The tiny mountain kingdom of Lesotho has the sixth highest murder rate in the world, according to a recent World Population Review report.

The global average murder rate is seven per 100,000 people, found the report, and Lesotho had a rate almost six times higher at 41.25. The report ranked Lesotho as only safer than El Salvador (82.84 per 100,000 people), Honduras (56.52), Venezuela (56.33), Virgin Islands (49.26) and Jamaica (47.01).