A Nobel-winning microfinance pioneer, Muhammad Yunus has been credited with lifting millions out of poverty in his native Bangladesh. He is now tasked with steering the South Asian country out of chaos after mass protests and spiralling unrest forced longtime prime minister Sheikh Hasina to flee. Yunus, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate known as the “banker to the poorest of the poor”, has been to lead 's interim government after Hasina resigned and fled abroad in the face of a against her authoritarian rule.
He will act as a caretaker premier until new elections are held. News of Hasina’s abrupt demise came as Yunus was recovering from surgery in Paris, where he also served as an adviser for the Summer Olympics. A longtime critic of the ousted prime minister, he described her fall as Bangladesh’s “second Liberation Day” in an with FRANCE 24 on Monday.
“Sheikh Hasina was the key to the problem. She held fake elections one after another,” Yunus said. “This is a day of great celebration for us.
We are free from all the oppression and all the attacks, all the mismanagement, all the corruption.” “I couldn’t understand how she could be so poor when she was making such beautiful things,” he recalled in the interview. Read also:.
