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Bangladesh protesters want Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus to lead government

Muhammad Yunus [Sazzad Hossain/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images]

Key organisers of Bangladesh’s student protests have said Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus should head an interim government after longtime Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled the country.

Nahid Islam, a 26-year-old sociology student who spearheaded the protest movement against quotas in government jobs that morphed into a national uprising against the administration, said in a video post on social media that Yunus had consented to take over.

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