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The landlocked West African country has suspended schools and universities across the nation due to a critical petrol shortage caused by a embargo on petroleum supplies implemented by Islamist insurgents.

The Education Minister stated on public media that all learning centers would stay shut until November 9th, clarifying that the movement of employees and pupils had been disrupted by the blockade.

He emphasized that the government officials were “making every effort” to alleviate the situation so that educational activities could continue on the tenth of November.

For weeks, the nation has been experiencing a petrol crisis, notably in the main city, after armed groups from an jihadist network imposed a restriction by attacking tankers on primary roads.

The country is landlocked, so all petroleum products are brought in by road from adjacent nations such as Senegal and the neighboring nation.

Extended lines have been forming around gas pumps in the capital in the last several days, and the city's usually crowded streets have now reportedly grown silent.

The ruling military council had in recent days promised the public that it was only a passing concern, but the emergency has endured.

Recently, the US Embassy in Bamako stated that secondary diplomatic employees and their families would leave the country amid the intensifying energy crisis and escalating protection worries.

It explained that the fuel disruptions had impacted the energy availability and had the “ability to disturb” the broader protection environment in unforeseen manners.

The West African nation is now led by a military junta headed by the military leader, who seized power in a takeover in recently.

The military government had public backing when it took power, promising to address the ongoing instability triggered by a autonomy movement in the northern region by the Tuareg population, which was then taken over by Islamist militants.

The UN peacekeeping mission and French forces had been stationed in previously to address the growing rebellion.

The international troops have left since the junta took over, and the ruling council has hired Russian mercenaries to combat the instability.

Nonetheless, the jihadist insurgency has endured and significant areas of the northern and eastern zones of the state remain outside government control.