We were handed a video taken by the rebels soon after one of the raids here.
But the package falls short of the heavy weapons and high-tech equipment sought by the rebels.
The British force secured the capital and rescued UN troops captured by the rebels.
Last week its troops took Cazombo, the last provincial capital held by the rebels.
The presidents dared not even announce a ceasefire, for fear it would be broken by the rebels.
The town's main hospital is closed, as medical workers have fled and medicines were looted by the rebels.
When he was only four, he was captured by the rebels while on his way home from the fields.
On Friday, a general strike called by the rebels brought life in many parts of the country to a virtual standstill.
Five of the captives had been held by the rebels for more than a year, while three others were kidnapped in September.
The government said it was a desperate attempt by the rebels who did not comment on the bombing to prevent civilians from deserting them.
Civilians, terrorised and mutilated by the rebels, have fled into neighbouring countries.
The violence came despite a ceasefire declared by the rebels on Friday.
Much of Syria is in a similar situation, and even areas controlled by the rebels are subject to intense bombardment from the air.
Last week, a former cabinet minister and an army officer were shot dead by the rebels shortly after they abandoned the peace talks.
The move marked a serious escalation by the rebels, who went on to take the town of Bossembele early Saturday, said military spokesman Lt.
Speaking in Bamako on Saturday, Mr Hollande pledged more French aid to its former colony and vowed to restore cultural sites damaged by the rebels.
Analysts say that the return to urban terrorism is a last ditch attempt by the rebels to force the Turkish state to talk to them.
As the fighting has intensified in the south near Damascus and military bases have come under attack by the rebels, loyalist forces are facing unprecedented pressure.
At the end of last year, eight soldiers were ambushed and killed by the rebels who now provide protection for cocaine traffickers in Peru's remotest areas.
It was carrying food supplies to two regime bases, Wadi al-Deif and Al-Hamdiyeh, which have been under siege by the rebels for several months, the Observatory said.
At San Juanito, barely 60 kilometres from Bogota, 16 men were killed and eight were wounded when a unit of 40 soldiers was overwhelmed by the rebels.
These were not the first Americans killed by the rebels.
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Government participation in an internationally-mediated peace effort and the unilateral ceasefire called by the rebels had made it possible to market the Island as a safe destination once more.
An even more delicate question, raised by the rebels' poor military performance, is whether there would be any circumstance in which coalition (though not American) ground forces might go in.
Western analysts say the plan by the Economic Community of West African States to deploy some 3, 000 troops to reclaim areas held by the rebels may just make the situation worse.
The city was a scene of deadly clashes between Congo's United Nations-backed national army and the M23 rebels late last year, culminating into its brief capture by the rebels in November 2012.
In Sri Lanka, the ceasefire between the government and Tamil rebels and ensuing peace talks allowed journalists to operate more freely, especially in getting access to previously closed areas controlled by the rebels.
From 2003 to the end of 2008, Unicef recorded more than 6, 000 cases of child recruitment by the rebels but the number is thought to have soared in the final months of the war.
At the time, a huge area controlled by the rebels in the south of the country was demilitarised, which, according to critics, allowed them to rearm and weakened their will to seek a peace agreement.
BBC: Ivan Marquez (left) and fellow Farc negotiator. File photo
In interviews given to local media after his release in 2012, he said he and his family had been threatened by the rebels, who blamed him for handing over their "prize possession" to the state authorities.
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