World Nigeria abducted schoolgirls: Was US slow to act? - BBC

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Three weeks after more than 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped in Nigeria, the US has announced it's sending a team to help in the search. Is it too little, too late?

Few stories this year have sparked such a prolonged worldwide campaign as the abduction under darkness of hundreds of girls from their boarding school in a northern Nigerian town.

Protests have taken place in New York, Los Angeles and London, while message boards and social media newsfeeds have long been seething, their disquiet directed at not just the perpetrators but the Nigerian government for a perceived lack of interest.

On Wednesday, First Lady Michelle Obama tweeted the #BringBackOurGirls hashtag to add her voice to the campaign.

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