Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girls' education campaigner who was shot by the Taliban, says "the world must not stay silent" over the abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped in in Nigeria three weeks ago Pakistani girls' education campaigner Malala Yousafzai in an interview with the BBC has called on the international community to do more to help the girls kidnapped over three weeks ago by Islamist Boko Haram militants in Nigeria.
The abduction which happened on April 15 has sparked international outrage and
mounting demands for Nigeria to spare no effort to find and free the girls
before they can be sold into slavery or otherwise harmed.
Nigeria's police have said more than 300 girls were abducted from their
secondary school in the country's remote northeast. Of that number, 276
remain in captivity and 53 managed to escape.
Malala Yousafzai was shot by the Taliban as she boarded her school bus in the
valley of Swat, northwest Pakistan after she spoke publicly about girls'
rights to education.
Source: BBC
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