Nigerian President Promises Malala Yousafzai to Rescue Kidnapped Girls

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan promised Malala Yousafzai that the missing Nigerian schoolgirls "will be returned as soon as possible," the activist said, succeeding where protests and Twitter campaigns have failed.

After surviving a Taliban assassination attempt in 2012, the Pakistani teen has become an international education activist. She has addressed the United Nations, met with U.S. President Barack Obama and been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize

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Yousafzai marked her 17th birthday Monday with a visit to Nigeria, and urged the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram to free the 219 schoolgirls who were kidnapped in April from the northern Nigerian town of Chibok, calling them her "sisters." Read more...

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