Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli resigned Tuesday afternoon after two days of violent anti-corruption agitations - led by 'Gen Z protesters' - killed 19 people and injured over 400.
Visuals showed Mr Oli leaving Kathmandu in what seemed to be a military chopper.
Mr Oli's resignation was a core demand of the Gen Z protesters. In Nepal, however, the Prime Minister standing down, however, does not automatically mean the government has fallen.
Prime Minister Oli is the head of the executive in the Himalyan nation and it is the President, who is Ram Chandra Poudel, who is the head of the governemnt. Sources, though, told news agency, it is only a matter of time before Mr Poudel also steps down and the government is fully overthrown.
For now, the fate of the Nepali government is unclear.
There are reports the Army will step in till order is restored and a new government is installed.
If true, that will mirror unfortunate events in Sri Lanka in 2022 and Bangladesh in 2024. In both those cases anti-corruption protests forced the Mahinda Rajapaksa and Sheikh Hasina's governments to fall,And, in both cases, the respective militaries were deployed or became involved.
Mr Oli's resignation was confirmed hours after protesters invaded government buildings - including Parliament, the private residences of PM Oli and President Ram Chandra Poudel - and set them on fire.
Visuals showed a war-like situation in capital Kathmandu, with small armies of young men and women occupying public spaces and engaged in pitched battles with the cops.
Plumes of acrid black smoke covered the cityscape. City streets were dotted with burning cars and trucks. And protesters swarmed over the walls and gates of the private residences of Prime Minister Oli.
A protest that began 24 hours ago afrer a ban on social media platforms, including Facebook, X, and YouTube, quickly spiralled into a condemnation of corruption in the Nepali government.
