LAGOS, Nigeria — As a nationwide strike over fuel prices enters its fifth day in Nigeria, people are beginning to ask how long it can last.
Organizers say they want to keep the indefinite strike and growing demonstrations going as long as the government refuses to bring gas prices down.
But ATMs are already starting to run out of money in Africa's most populous nation, and gangs of young men have taken over some highways and overpasses.
The strike began Monday after the country's government decided earlier this month to abandon subsidies that had kept gasoline prices lower for consumers. Fuel prices doubled overnight, and the costs of food and transportation also have skyrocketed. Tens of thousands have marched across the country in protest.
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