Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus on Thursday, returned to Bangladesh to lead a caretaker government after a student-led uprising ended the 15-year rule of Sheikh Hasina.
Osun Defender reports that Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s 15-year rule ended on Monday as she resigned and fled the palace.
Yunus touched down in Dhaka on a flight from Paris via Dubai shortly after 2:00 pm (0800 GMT) and could be sworn in as the country’s new leader as soon as Thursday evening to begin what the army chief has vowed will be a “beautiful democratic process”.
The Students who lead the protest against the former Prime Minister have been calling for Yunus to lead the interim government.
The military then agreed to student demands that Yunus — who won the Nobel in 2006 for his pioneering microfinancing work — lead an interim government.
“I’m looking forward to going back home, see what’s happening and how we can organise ourselves to get out of the trouble we are in,” Yunus told reporters in Paris as he left for Dhaka.
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