Michelle Obama has said she and Barack Obama "see our own daughters" in the more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria as the First Lady used her husband's radio platform to condemn the mass abduction.
Mrs Obama, mother of 15-year-old Malia and 12-year-old Sasha, became one of the faces of the global push for the release of the girls after showing her support for the #BringBackOurGirls campaign.
Delivering the weekly White House address, she said she and the president were "outraged and heartbroken" over the kidnapping.
"This unconscionable act was committed by a terrorist group determined to keep these girls from getting an education - grown men attempting to snuff out the aspirations of young girls," she said in the address, which is broadcast on radio and online.
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Michelle Obama feels for anguished parents of kidnapped girls.
In the weekly address, Mrs Obama added: "We see their hopes, their dreams and we can only imagine the anguish their parents are feeling right now."
The speech, delivered on the Mother's Day weekend in America, is the first time she has made the address alone.
British actress Emma Watson has spoken out on Twitter.
The Harry Potter star called for justice for the kidnapped schoolgirls and urged campaigners to stay active in raising awareness of their abduction.
Anne Hathaway and husband lead protest in LA.
Oscar winner Anne Hathaway has taken to the streets of Los Angeles to make a rallying cry about the kidnapping.
Armed with a megaphone, she and a dozen others - including her husband Adam Shulman - carried placards demanding the release of the more than 200 girls who were seized in Chibok on 14 April.
Campaigners protest in London.
Similar placards were raised outside the Nigerian High Commission in London, demanding more action to capture the Islamist militants Boko Haram who have threatened to sell the schoolgirls.
“I became attracted to my daughter, when I saw her. And I told her I wanted to show her true love… Actually, she was the person that started it by always changing her cloths in front of me and this attracted me” – Says John Awah, who claimed that the multiple rounds of sex he had with his daughter was ‘consensual’ It sounds bizarre, untrue, and squeamish, but it’s the whole truth. Yes, it actually took place in Nigeria, Lagos, a city where everything seems possible. When Chinyere, 18, decided to leave her mother in Abia State and pay her father, John Awah, a visit in Lagos, she must have been longing for a tender loving care, which fathers give their children. But she surely did not bargain for what she eventually ended up with – steamy sex sessions with her father. Upon her arrival, her father was shocked to his bone marrow that his daughter who left him when she was a year old, had suddenly grown to a full girl, and he suddenly fell in love with her. Awah said: “I became attracted ...





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