Headlines for August 09, 2024

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus has been sworn in as head of Bangladesh’s caretaker government just days after the ouster of Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina following weeks of student-led protests. Yunus, a longtime critic of Hasina, took the oath during a ceremony at the presidential palace in the capital Dhaka Thursday.

Over a dozen other members of Yunus’s Cabinet were also sworn in, including two students who led the uprising against Hasina: Nahid Islam and Asif Mahmud. Adilur Rahman Khan, a prominent Bangladeshi human rights advocate who was sentenced to two years in prison by Hasina’s government, will also be an adviser in Yunus’s interim government. Muhammad Yunus, known as the “banker to the poor,” was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for his work developing microloans. For more, we’ll go to Dhaka after headlines.