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Mali Shuts Down Schools and Higher Education Centers as Jihadist Restrictions Worsens Petrol Crisis
The landlocked West African country has temporarily halted schools and colleges across the nation due to a critical petrol shortage caused by a restriction on petroleum supplies imposed by jihadist fighters.
The Education Minister declared on public media that all academic facilities would remain closed until the ninth of November, clarifying that the transportation of staff and learners had been affected by the blockade.
He asserted that the authorities were “doing everything possible” to resolve the crisis so that classes could continue on 10 November.
For weeks, Mali has been facing a petrol crisis, especially in the capital Bamako, after insurgents from an al-Qaeda-linked organization imposed a blockade by striking transport vehicles on primary roads.
Mali is without coastal access, so all energy resources are delivered by land routes from neighboring states such as its western neighbor and the neighboring nation.
Lengthy waits have been forming around petrol stations in Bamako in the past few weeks, and the city's typically busy streets have now reportedly become deserted.
The ruling military council had previously assured the public that it was only a passing concern, but the emergency has persisted.
Recently, the American diplomatic mission in the capital stated that non-essential diplomatic staff and their dependents would evacuate the country amid the worsening energy crisis and increasing safety issues.
It explained that the petroleum supply issues had impacted the energy availability and had the “potential to disrupt” the general safety conditions in unpredictable ways.
Mali is presently governed by a military junta led by General Goïta, who took control in a military overthrow in 2021.
The military government had public backing when it assumed control, promising to tackle the protracted safety emergency caused by a independence uprising in the northern territories by ethnic Tuaregs, which was then taken over by jihadist fighters.
The UN peacekeeping mission and French forces had been stationed in previously to deal with the escalating insurgency.
These forces have withdrawn since the junta took over, and the military government has contracted private military contractors to address the insecurity.
However, the Islamist rebellion has continued and significant areas of the northern and eastern territories of the state remain not under administrative command.
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