Bangladesh Prepares for Interim Government Amid Ongoing Strife; On Thursday, August 8, Bangladesh will inaugurate a new interim government led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus. This development follows a period of severe unrest driven by student protests, which culminated in the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her subsequent departure to India. The transition aims to stabilize the country and address the demands of the protesters.
Yunus, 84, Bangladesh’s only Nobel laureate and a harsh critic of Hasina, was recommended for the job by the student protesters who led the campaign against Hasina.
He was expected to be sworn in as chief adviser along with a team of advisers later on Thursday in an interim government which the army chief said may include 15 members, although discussions on the names continued till late on Wednesday.
Hasina’s Awami League party was not involved in all-party discussions led by army chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman, who announced Hasina’s resignation on Monday.
Yunus is known as the “banker to the poor” and was awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for founding a bank that pioneered fighting poverty with small loans to needy borrowers.
