Muhammad Yunus, Bangladesh’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning economist, has been sworn in as the leader of the country’s interim administration.
This comes three days after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was forced to resign and escape the country amid violent protests.
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Yunus, 84, was recommended for the job by student demonstrators and arrived in Dhaka earlier on Thursday from Paris, where he was receiving medical care.
Yunus will be the senior adviser to the interim administration entrusted with arranging new elections in the South Asian country of 170 million.
The student-led movement that ousted Hasina grew out of protests against quotas in government jobs that spiraled in July, provoking a violent crackdown that drew global criticism, although the government denied using excessive force.
The protests were fueled also by harsh economic conditions and political repression in the country.
