Yunus is a social entrepreneur, banker, economist and civil society leader who was awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for founding Grameen Bank and pioneering concepts of microcredit and microfinance in the South Asian nation.
Yunus says Hasina ouster by student-led protests "is like a second liberation for the people of Bangladesh." / Photo: AFP Archive
Yunus is a Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, banker, economist and civil society leader who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance. The demand comes after PM Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled the country to India, ending her 15-year rule amid deadly protests.
The weeks of protests had begun peacefully as frustrated students demanded an end to a quota system for government jobs, but they turned into an unprecedented uprising against Hasina and her ruling Awami League party.
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