{"id":66079,"date":"2024-08-07T13:19:06","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T04:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/07\/muhammad-yunus-bangladesh-interim-government-pm-sheikh-hasina"},"modified":"2024-08-07T22:32:08","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T13:32:08","slug":"nobel-laureate-muhammad-yunus-to-head-bangladeshs-interim-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66079","title":{"rendered":"Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus to head Bangladesh\u2019s interim government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Decision came during meeting of military chiefs and organisers of the student protests that helped drive longtime prime minister Sheikh Hasina from power<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/07\/who-is-muhammad-yunus-bangladesh-interim-government-sheikh-hasina\">Profile: who is Muhammad Yunus?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/05\/why-bangladesh-prime-minister-sheikh-hasina-resigned\">Explainer: Why has Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gallery\/2024\/aug\/06\/mass-protests-in-bangladesh-in-pictures\">Mass protests in Bangladesh \u2013 in pictures<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The<strong> <\/strong>Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus will be the head of Bangladesh\u2019s interim government after the longtime prime minister Sheikh Hasina fled the country amid a mass uprising that left hundreds of people dead and pushed the south Asian country to the brink of chaos.<\/p>\n<p>The decision, announced early on Wednesday by Joynal Abedin, the press secretary of the country\u2019s figurehead president, Mohammed Shahabuddin, came during a meeting that included military chiefs, organisers of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/05\/bangladesh-pm-has-resigned-and-left-country-media-reports-say-sheikh-hasina\">student protests that helped drive Hasina from power<\/a>, prominent business leaders and civil society members.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/07\/muhammad-yunus-bangladesh-interim-government-pm-sheikh-hasina\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decision came during meeting of military chiefs and organisers of the student protests that helped drive longtime prime minister Sheikh Hasina from powerProfile: who is Muhammad Yunus?Explainer: Why has Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled?Mass protests in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,232,3119,2816,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-governance","category-muhammad-yunus","category-sheikh-hasina","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66079"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66097,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66079\/revisions\/66097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}