内容摘要：“The AfDB’s role is now more critical than ever,” said Bismark Rewane, an economist and chief executive of Lagos-based Financial Derivatives Co. He called for “African resilience” at a time when “no one is going to pick the chestnut out of the fire” for African countries.

“The AfDB’s role is now more critical than ever,” said Bismark Rewane, an economist and chief executive of Lagos-based Financial Derivatives Co. He called for “African resilience” at a time when “no one is going to pick the chestnut out of the fire” for African countries.

Other schools face the loss of federal funding and their ability to enroll international students if they don’t agree to the Trump administration’s shifting demands. But Harvard, which was founded more than a century before the nation itself, has taken the lead in defying the White House in court and is paying a heavy price.Graduating students walk through Harvard Yard during commencement ceremonies at Harvard University, Thursday, May 29, 2025, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Graduating students walk through Harvard Yard during commencement ceremonies at Harvard University, Thursday, May 29, 2025, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)Among the Trump administration’s latest salvos was asking federal agencieswith the university. The government already canceled more than $2.6 billion in federal research grants, moved to cut off Harvard’s

Visa interviews for international students admitted to schools nationwide, and Trump said Wednesday that Harvard should reduce its international enrollment from 25% to about 15%.

Sustained by a $53 billion endowment, the nation’s wealthiest university is testing whether it can be a bulwark against

what his administration calls antisemitic activism on campus, which Harvard sees as an affront to“Mariama will always be here,” she said, stepping away from the grave and onto a path that winds through rows of monuments outlined with white tile, stone and sand.

At home, Lam and her husband Pathé smiled over an old video clip of their daughter beaming as she celebrated her 13th birthday with cake and sparklers. When the girl was little, she loved to play. By 13, her muscles had weakened, her spine had curved and stiffened and in her last months, she struggled increasingly to breathe.She visited Fann hospital in Dakar, where neurologist Dr. Pedro Rodriguez Cruz measured her lung capacity. He suspects Mariama had SELENON-related myopathy, a muscular dystrophy that causes severe respiratory compromise. A new BiPAP machine might have helped to ease her breathing, but it was too late.

Ndeye Lam sends a prayer at the foot of her daughter Mariama’s grave in Dakar, Senegal, Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)Ndeye Lam sends a prayer at the foot of her daughter Mariama’s grave in Dakar, Senegal, Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)