Zuma to Libya for Cease-Fire Talks; NATO Confirms Mishap
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South African President Jacob Zuma will travel to Libya to discuss a cease-fire with Muammar Qaddafi and rebel forces, while NATO confirmed its airstrikes mistakenly killed Libyan rebels using tanks against government forces near the eastern oil port of Brega.
Zuma will be part of an African Union delegation that will make a two-day trip to Libya starting tomorrow and which has been given permission to enter the country by NATO, according to an e-mailed statement by South Africa’s Department of International Relations and Cooperation. The AU team will meet Qaddafi in Tripoli and rebel leaders in their stronghold of Benghazi in the east.