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

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot [on / in] the head by the Taliban in 2012 [for / from] going to school, expressed [her / she] shock at the kidnappings. She said: "These girls are my sisters, and I am [felt / feeling] very sad." She had a special message for the girls, saying: "Never lose [hopeful / hope] because we are with you." Malala compared the situation to what was [happening / happened] in her hometown of Swat, Pakistan. She said: "It is what happened in Swat as [good / well] . In Swat, we were suffering. Girls were banned from going to school and banned from going to [market / marketing] ." She added: "They were in schools trying to study, thinking about their future, and then [sudden / suddenly] some people came and abducted them." She called it "another [kind / kinds] of terrorism".