“What’s next?”: That’s the question for Bangladesh after the dramatic exit of the country’s longest serving prime minister, Sheikh Hasina. The key players in determining the next government are the Bangladeshi military, student protest leaders and Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus. The World’s Host Marco Werman speaks with Shafqat Munir, a research fellow at the Bangladesh Institute of Peace and Security Studies, a think tank in the capital, Dhaka.
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