Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus to lead Bangladesh interim government
Al Jazeera
The microfinance pioneer has been tapped to lead an interim government after the ouster of PM Sheikh Hasina.
Bangladesh’s Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus will head the country’s interim government after former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina stepped down and fled the country amid a mass uprising against her rule led mostly by students.
The announcement early on Wednesday came from Joynal Abedin, the press secretary of President Mohammed Shahabuddin.
Abedin also said the other members of the Yunus-led government would be decided soon after discussion with political parties and other stakeholders.
The leaders of the student protests, the chiefs of the country’s three divisions of the military, and civil society members, as well as some business leaders, held a meeting with the president for more than five hours late on Tuesday to decide on the head of the interim administration.
