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More than 270 girls were snatched by militants from their boarding school in Chibok, north-eastern Nigeria, on the night of 14 April. Some managed to escape, but most were taken into the remote Sambisa forest. Their families fear they have been forced into sex slavery, or will be trafficked to other countries.

On Monday, Boko Haram released a 27-minute video, showing about 130 girls in Muslim dress and reading from the Qur'an. Most of the seized girls are Christians. Two were singled out to tell the camera they had converted to Islam.

In the video, the Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, said the girls could be released in exchange for jailed militants. "I swear to almighty Allah, you will not see them again until you release our brothers that you have captured," he said.

Nigeria's president, Goodluck Jonathan, said on Sunday that he believed the girls were still in the country, and that international assistance had raised hopes of finding them.

The former British prime minister Gordon Brown, who called for international military assistance two weeks ago and travelled to Nigeria last week, said on Monday: "There will be worldwide condemnation of a new video showing Boko Haram cruelly and barbarically using 200 kidnapped girls to bargain for the release of prisoners and exploiting innocent young girls for political purposes.

"It is urgent that all religious leaders in every part of the world speak out against their perverted and twisted version of Islam which involves forced conversions and the sale of girls as sex slaves."

As Entertainers, business people, ordinary south africans, the government ect it is our duty to land a helping hand how ever possible because had this been our daughters we would be begging people to aid us in finding them. What the militia has done is conspicuous and disgusting, These girls can be trafficked to the far corners of this world and the would be hard to find then. This is a calling to the world at large we need to rise and assist.

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