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The landlocked West African country has temporarily halted schools and universities throughout the country due to a acute fuel scarcity resulting from a blockade on fuel imports enforced by militant groups.

Minister of Education stated on state television that all academic facilities would stay shut until November 9th, noting that the transportation of staff and students had been disrupted by the blockade.

He stated that the authorities were “making every effort” to alleviate the emergency so that academic sessions could restart on November 10th.

For a number of weeks, the nation has been facing a petrol crisis, particularly in the capital Bamako, after militants from an jihadist network initiated a embargo by striking tankers on key routes.

The country is without coastal access, so all fuel supplies are transported by truck from adjacent nations such as its western neighbor and Côte d'Ivoire.

Lengthy waits have been winding around gas pumps in Bamako in the last several days, and the city's typically busy streets have now allegedly become deserted.

The junta-led administration had previously promised the public that it was only a short-term problem, but the emergency has persisted.

In the past few days, the United States diplomatic office in the capital stated that secondary diplomatic employees and their relatives would depart the country amid the worsening fuel shortage and increasing safety issues.

It said that the petroleum supply issues had impacted the supply of electricity and had the “ability to disturb” the broader protection environment in unforeseen manners.

The West African nation is presently governed by a armed forces administration headed by the military leader, who assumed authority in a coup in two years ago.

The military government had widespread approval when it came to authority, vowing to address the ongoing instability prompted by a independence uprising in the north by Tuareg communities, which was then taken over by extremist groups.

The UN peacekeeping mission and France's military had been deployed in a decade ago to combat the growing rebellion.

Both have left since the new administration came in, and the current administration has employed foreign fighters to combat the violence.

However, the jihadist insurgency has endured and extensive regions of the northern and eastern territories of the country remain not under administrative command.