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"We were besieged inside our house and couldn't leave," she recalls, describing how power, water and internet connections were all severed.

Italians and others are alleged to have paid large sums to shoot at civilians in the besieged city of Sarajevo.

The man filming the video accused him of trying to smuggle supplies into the besieged city.

The situation is worst in the besieged cities of el-Fasher in the western Darfur region and Kadugli in South Kordofan state.

What to do with the besieged militants has become a sticking point in negotiations, Arab officials say.