Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Accepts Call to Lead Bangladesh’s Interim Government
Economist Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel prize in 2006 for establishing the microcredit institution Grameen Bank.
The leader of student protests over jobs and economic injustice in Bangladesh in recent weeks said Tuesday that Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus had accepted the students’ call for him to take over the country’s interim government, following the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. A spokesperson for the country’s president, Mohammed Shahabuddin, told the Associated Press…