When Kenya almost went into war with Uganda’s Idi Amin over a missing girl

Uganda’s President Idi Amin (left) meets President Jomo Kenyatta at the airport in Mombasa in 1970s.


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Esther Chesire, a second-year law student, is 22 and so is her friend, Sally Githere. With their air tickets, some luggage and passports, the two girls go through the immigration protocols and are waiting to board the East African Airways flight EC629 to Nairobi

Ms Chesire, perhaps not realising the danger, told her friend that she would catch the next evening flight. She didn’t and – despite threats of war – she has never been found.