NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Niger vowed Saturday that it will not be intimidated into leaving Mali a day after nine of its peacekeepers were killed in an ambush in the neighboring country.

Gunmen on motorbikes on Friday attacked a convoy of Niger’s troops who are participating in a U.N. peacekeeping mission in Mali. The ambush was the deadliest attack on the U.N. force yet.

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