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Niger says it will not be intimidated into leaving Mali a day after nine of its peacekeepers were killed in an ambush in the neighbouring country.<\/p>\n

Niger’s president, Mahamadou Issoufou, vowed on Saturday that the West African country would stay in Mali and continue to fight.<\/p>\n

Gunmen on motorbikes on Friday attacked a convoy of Niger’s troops who are participating in a UN peacekeeping mission in Mali.<\/p>\n

The ambush was the deadliest attack on the UN force yet.<\/p>\n

UN troops are trying to stabilise Mali’s north, which fell under the control of Tuareg fighters and then an al-Qaeda-linked group following a 2012 coup.<\/p>\n

A French-led intervention last year scattered the fighters, but attacks on the UN force have been increasing lately.<\/p>\n

Earlier, Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, said in a statement he was “outraged<\/a><\/strong>” by Friday’s attack, which he described as “a serious violation of international law”.<\/p>\n

An officer from Niger with the MINUSMA mission told the AFP news agency the ambush had been staged by the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), an al-Qaeda-linked group behind numerous attacks in the West African nation.<\/p>\n

The deaths mark the first losses suffered by Niger’s 600-strong force, deployed to Mali in January last year.<\/p>\n

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Source: Aljazeera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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