Young activist Malala Yousafzai has met with
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan... in
her campaign to help release the 2-hundred-19
Nigerian schoolgirls still missing since their
April abduction at the hands of Islamist militants.
The Pakistani teenager... who turned seventeen
on Saturday... said it was her birthday wish
to see them return home... and said Jonathan
promised to do all he could to accomplish
that end.
Malala also met with the parents of some of
the missing girls in a Abuja hotel on Sunday...
and told them she regarded their daughters
as her sisters, and would stand up on their
behalf.
Malala gained global prominence after surviving
a gunshot wound to her head by Taliban forces,
who tried to silence the advocate for girls'
education.
