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The president of Bangladesh on Tuesday appointed Muhammad Yunus, a pioneer in microfinance who is a Nobel laureate, to oversee an interim government, accommodating demands by protesters and offering a reprieve for a country scarred by violence.
Scattered across Southeast Asia, Bangladesh’s migrant workforce on Tuesday hailed the abrupt end of the Sheikh Hasina era, after 15 years which saw economic growth pour money into the pockets of tycoons yet exclude millions of the poorest who have been forced to seek work overseas.
Bangladesh’s president dissolved parliament on Tuesday, clearing the way for an interim government and new elections, a day after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled following a violent crackdown on a student-led uprising.
NEW DELHI (AP) — In a video that lit up social media feeds in Bangladesh, jubilant protesters climbed atop a statue of Sheikh Mujib Rahman, the country’s first leader after independence, and beat it with iron rods and axes as people below hooted and cheered.
Head of Bangladesh Nationalist Party was an opponent of Prime Minister Hasina, who resigned and fled the country.
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh is in the midst of a major transition after former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was forced to flee the country after weeks of deadly protests initially over government jobs morphed into a broader challenge to her 15-year rule, which was marked by a rising economy but an increasingly authoritarian streak.
A day after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh dramatically resigned and fled the country, the student groups that led the popular uprising against her proposed a notable name to help lead the interim government: Muhammad Yunus, a microfinance pioneer who received the Nobel Peace Prize.
Yunus, known as the ‘banker to the poor’, is the choice of the student movement to head the new interim government.