Dhaka, Bangladesh – AFP Bangladesh will maintain support for its immense Rohingya refugee population, Nobel laureate and new leader Muhammad Yunus said Sunday in his first major policy address. Yunus, 84, returned from Europe this month after a student-led revolution to take up the monumental task of steering democratic reforms in a coun...
Washington, United States – AFP The United States on Thursday welcomed the new interim government in Bangladesh led by Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus, saying it hoped to work together to advance democracy. “We welcome Dr. Yunus’s call for an end to the recent violence and we stand ready to work with the interim governmen...
Dhaka, Bangladesh – AFP Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus was sworn into office Thursday as Bangladesh’s interim leader, vowing to guide the country back to democracy after a student-led uprising ended the 15-year rule of Sheikh Hasina. Yunus, who only returned home hours earlier, swore to “uphold, support and protect t...
Dhaka, Bangladesh – AFP Nobel peace prize winner Muhammad Yunus was flying back to Bangladesh on Thursday to lead a caretaker government after a student-led uprising ended the 15-year rule of Sheikh Hasina. Yunus, 84, could be sworn in as the country’s new leader as soon as Thursday evening to begin what the army chief […]
Dhaka, Bangladesh – AFP A Bangladeshi court on Wednesday overturned a conviction against Mohammed Yunus. “Professor Muhammad Yunus and three of his colleagues have been acquitted of labour charges,” one of his lawyers, Khaja Tanvir Ahmed, told AFP. “The court earlier this year sentenced them to six months in prison.R...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – The key coordinators of the student movement that forced Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to flee Bangladesh announced Nobel laureate Mohammad Yunus as the chief advisor of the interim government on Tuesday. In a video posted on social media, key coordinator Nahid Islam along with two other coordinators said “we have decid...
Dhaka, Bangladesh – AFP Bangladesh Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus said Thursday that several of his firms were forcibly taken over, weeks after his conviction in a criminal case his supporters say was politically motivated. Yunus, 83, is credited with lifting millions out of poverty with his pioneering microfinance bank but has earn...
