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More countries are Nigeria their support to help find over 220 schoolgirls who were last week by an extreme Islamist group. The USA, China, France, Britain and Canada have all Nigeria's government they will do what they can to the missing girls. The group Boko Haram kidnapped the girls and said it would them. U.S. president Barack Obama said the kidnapping was both "heartbreaking" and "outrageous". American military experts are now in Nigeria to for the children. China has computer equipment and special software to help them. One of Egypt's top Islamic universities said the girls "completely the teachings of Islam".

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl in the head by the Taliban in 2012 for going to school, her shock at the kidnappings. She said: "These girls are my sisters, and I am very sad." She had a special message for the girls, saying: "Never hope because we are with you." Malala the situation to what was in her hometown of Swat, Pakistan. She said: "It is what in Swat as well. In Swat, we were . Girls were banned from going to school and banned from going to market." She added: "They were in schools trying to study, about their future, and then suddenly some people came and them." She called it "another kind of terrorism".

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