Yahoo – AFP,
8 May 2014
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Protestors
hold signs during a demonstration on May 6, 2014 outside the Nigerian
embassy
in Washington, DC demanding robust action to rescue more than 200
schoolgirls
kidnapped by Boko Haram militants (AFP Photo/Robert MacPherson)
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Protestors
hold signs during a demonstration on May 6, 2014 outside the Nigerian embassy
in Washington, DC demanding robust action to rescue more than 200 schoolgirls
kidnapped by Boko Haram militants (AFP Photo/Robert MacPherson)
Washington
(AFP) - Michelle Obama on Wednesday expressed sympathy for the more than 200
schoolgirls abducted in Nigeria, in a personal message on Twitter.
"Our
prayers are with the missing Nigerian girls and their families. It's time to
#BringBackOurGirls," said the US First Lady on her @FLOTUS account, with a
picture of her solemnly holding a sign saying #BringBackOurGirls"
scribbled in black on white paper.
The tweet
was signed "mo," meaning she wrote it herself, and it was retweeted
more than 8,500 times in just a few hours.
President
Barack Obama on Tuesday called the mass kidnapping three weeks ago by Boko
Haram Islamists "heartbreaking" and "outrageous."
The US has
sent experts including from the military in the hunt for the girls, who were
snatched at gun point from their Nigerian.
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‘Our
prayers are with the missing Nigerian girls and their families. It’s time to
#BringBackOurGirls,’ wrote US First Lady Michelle Obama under a picture
retweeted more than 48,000 times. (Photo courtesy of White House)
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