Though Hasina’s increasingly autocratic rule had strained relations with the United States and others, her ouster could deepen instability in the majority-Muslim South Asian nation of 170 million people, which struggles with poverty and high youth unemployment.
Hasina's exit came after hundreds of people were killed in a crackdown on demonstrations that began as protests against job quotas and swelled into a movement demanding her downfall.
Bangladesh's army has temporarily taken control of the country, but it remains unclear what its role would be in an interim government after the country's president dissolved Parliament on Tuesday.
Protesters were seen in the grounds of Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s residence in Dhaka on Monday, 5 August, after the leader resigned and fled the country by helicopter.
