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The landlocked West African country has closed educational facilities and universities across the nation due to a acute fuel scarcity triggered by a embargo on fuel imports implemented by jihadist fighters.

The Education Minister stated on national broadcast that all learning centers would remain closed until the ninth of November, clarifying that the movement of employees and pupils had been disrupted by the imposed limitations.

He stated that the authorities were “making every effort” to end the crisis so that classes could restart on November 10th.

For a number of weeks, Mali has been grappling with a fuel shortage, particularly in the capital Bamako, after militants from an al-Qaeda-linked organization initiated a restriction by targeting fuel trucks on key routes.

The country is without coastal access, so all fuel supplies are brought in by road from neighboring states such as its western neighbor and the neighboring nation.

Extended lines have been forming around gas pumps in the main city in the last several days, and the city's normally bustling streets have now allegedly become deserted.

The military government had earlier this month promised residents that it was only a passing concern, but the situation has endured.

Recently, the US Embassy in the capital stated that non-essential diplomatic staff and their relatives would evacuate the country amid the worsening petrol scarcity and escalating safety issues.

It said that the petroleum supply issues had affected the supply of electricity and had the “ability to disturb” the general safety conditions in unpredictable ways.

The West African nation is presently governed by a armed forces administration headed by the military leader, who seized power in a coup in recently.

The junta had widespread approval when it took power, vowing to deal with the protracted safety emergency triggered by a independence uprising in the northern territories by the Tuareg population, which was then hijacked by extremist groups.

The international UN troops and European soldiers had been sent in 2013 to combat the escalating insurgency.

Both have departed since the military assumed power, and the ruling council has contracted Russian mercenaries to combat the insecurity.

Nonetheless, the Islamist rebellion has endured and extensive regions of the northern and eastern zones of the state remain not under administrative command.