内容摘要：Although al-Sharaa has bolstered security in Alawite towns and cities in an attempt to maintain order, if his forces do launch a campaign to arrest Assad loyalists, they risk further destabilising an already fragile country.

Although al-Sharaa has bolstered security in Alawite towns and cities in an attempt to maintain order, if his forces do launch a campaign to arrest Assad loyalists, they risk further destabilising an already fragile country.

The Desmond Tutu Health Foundation projects the US's move could result in as many as half a million deaths.South Africa's leading Aids lobby group, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), warned the country could see a return to when HIV patients struggled to access necessary services for their treatment.

"We can't afford to die, we can't afford to go back to those years where we were suffering with access to services, especially for people living with HIV treatment," said TAC chair Sibongile Tshabalala.She was speaking during a digital news conference on Thursday, in which representatives from organisations that work with HIV patients described the chaos and despair caused by the termination of the funding.Ms Tshabalala, who has HIV, became emotional as she questioned how she and others like her would survive in the wake of the funding cuts.

Dr Motsoaledi said he did not want South Africa, which has the largest ARV programme in the world, to be dependent on aid."It's only that you remember the era when Pepfar started, when people offer your money, you couldn't reject it. But I believe it was something that we should not have allowed to flourish," the health minister told the BBC.

Services affected by the US cuts include community testing and tracing, as well as specialist clinics that help pregnant mothers from passing the virus to their unborn children.

Ms Tshabalala told the BBC the TAC had received a "chunk" of their funding from Pepfar and a smaller grant from the US CDC and the South African National Aids Council (Sanac).The body which runs Nigeria's university-entrance exams has admitted to a "technical glitch" which compromised some results of this year's tests, after nearly 80% of students got low grades.

Students have complained about not being able to log in to the computers, questions not showing up and power cuts making it impossible to take the examinations.The low pass rate has sparked widespread outrage, especially after one candidate took her own life.

Faith Opesusi Timileyin, 19, who was aspiring to study microbiology at university, died after swallowing poison, her family said.Her father and elder sister told the BBC that she had sat the exam for the second time and got 146 marks out of 400, lower than the 193 she had last year.