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Mali Shuts Down Schools and Higher Education Centers as Jihadist Restrictions Exacerbates Petrol Shortage
The landlocked West African country has closed educational facilities and higher learning institutions throughout the country due to a acute fuel scarcity caused by a blockade on petroleum supplies enforced by Islamist insurgents.
The Education Minister stated on state television that all academic facilities would be inactive until the ninth of November, explaining that the travel of personnel and pupils had been affected by the imposed limitations.
He asserted that the authorities were “making every effort” to end the emergency so that classes could resume on November 10th.
For several weeks, the nation has been facing a petrol crisis, especially in the capital Bamako, after armed groups from an al-Qaeda-linked organization imposed a restriction by attacking transport vehicles on major highways.
The country is without coastal access, so all petroleum products are delivered by land routes from adjacent nations such as its western neighbor and Côte d'Ivoire.
Extended lines have been snaking around petrol stations in the main city in the past few weeks, and the city's usually crowded streets have now reportedly grown silent.
The military government had in recent days assured residents that it was only a short-term problem, but the situation has continued.
In the past few days, the American diplomatic mission in Bamako stated that secondary diplomatic employees and their dependents would leave Mali amid the deteriorating energy crisis and increasing protection worries.
It explained that the petroleum supply issues had disrupted the supply of electricity and had the “capacity to affect” the general safety conditions in unpredictable ways.
The West African nation is now led by a army council under the leadership of General Goïta, who assumed authority in a takeover in recently.
The junta had public backing when it came to authority, committing to address the protracted safety emergency triggered by a autonomy movement in the north by Tuareg communities, which was then hijacked by Islamist militants.
The UN peacekeeping mission and European soldiers had been sent in a decade ago to combat the increasing militant activity.
These forces have withdrawn since the military assumed power, and the ruling council has employed private military contractors to address the violence.
However, the Islamist rebellion has persisted and large parts of the north and east of the nation remain not under administrative command.
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