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The landlocked West African country has suspended schools and colleges throughout the country due to a severe energy crisis triggered by a embargo on energy resources implemented by militant groups.

Top education official declared on state television that all learning centers would be inactive until November 9th, clarifying that the transportation of staff and pupils had been affected by the blockade.

He asserted that the authorities were “doing everything possible” to resolve the emergency so that educational activities could continue on 10 November.

For several weeks, the nation has been experiencing a petrol crisis, especially in the main city, after armed groups from an al-Qaeda affiliate imposed a restriction by attacking tankers on key routes.

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

Long queues have been winding around petrol stations in the main city in the last several days, and the city's normally bustling streets have now allegedly fallen quiet.

The junta-led administration had previously reassured citizens that it was only a passing concern, but the emergency has continued.

Recently, the US Embassy in Bamako declared that non-essential diplomatic staff and their families would evacuate the country amid the deteriorating energy crisis and escalating security concerns.

It explained that the fuel disruptions had affected the supply of electricity and had the “capacity to affect” the general safety conditions in unforeseen manners.

The West African nation is currently ruled by a armed forces administration under the leadership of the military leader, who assumed authority in a coup in recently.

The military government had popular support when it assumed control, vowing to tackle the protracted safety emergency triggered by a independence uprising in the north by ethnic Tuaregs, which was then hijacked by Islamist militants.

The United Nations stabilization force and French forces had been stationed in a decade ago to deal with the growing rebellion.

Both have left since the military assumed power, and the current administration has employed Russian mercenaries to combat the insecurity.

Nevertheless, the Islamist rebellion has continued and significant areas of the north and east of the nation remain beyond state authority.