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

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012 for going to school, expressed her at the kidnappings. She said: "These girls are my sisters, and I am feeling very ." She had a special for the girls, saying: "Never lose because we are with you." Malala compared the to what was happening in her hometown of Swat, Pakistan. She said: "It is what happened in Swat as . In Swat, we were suffering. Girls were banned from going to school and banned from going to ." She added: "They were in schools trying to study, thinking about their , and then suddenly some people came and abducted them." She called it "another kind of ".

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