Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has resigned, a senior military official has said, after thousands of protesters descended on the capital demanding her ousting in a dramatic culmination of weeks of demonstrations.
Bangladesh army chief Waker-Uz-Zaman said in a televised address on Monday that the military would begin talks to form an interim government.
Sheikh Hasina, who has ruled the country of 170mn for a total of two decades, has faced growing popular anger. She was re-elected to a fifth term earlier this year after authorities rounded up thousands of members of the main opposition party, which boycotted the vote.
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