Yunus flies back home

Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus flew back home Saturday, capping a visit to South Africa. Yunus, who went to South Africa on July 16, attended the 89th birth anniversary of another Nobel laureate and former president Nelson Mandela. Former US President Jimmy Carter, Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu, former UN Secretary-General Kofi Anan, among others, attended event in Johannesburg. The "banker to the poor" landed at Zia International Airport at around 11.00 pm. The microcredit guru could not be reached immediately for comment on the outcome of his visit to South Africa. Yunus's spokesman and brother, Muhammad Jahangir, could not say anything about the visit. "I don't know anything," he told the news agency when reached by phone late Saturday. Another family member who did not give her name said at 11:45pm by phone that Yunus had already gone to bed. —bdnews24.com