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5/30/11

Zuma in Libya for end game

President Jacob Zuma from South Africa arrived in Tripoli on Monday to try to broker a peace deal with Muammar Gaddafi, just hours after Nato's secretary-general said the Libyan leader's "reign of terror" was coming to an end.

In Rome, eight Libyan army officers including five generals appeared at an Italian government-arranged news conference, saying they were part of a group of up to 120 military officials and soldiers who defected from Gaddafi in recent days.

The defections come two months after that of Libyan foreign minister and former espionage chief Moussa Koussa and the resignation of senior diplomat Ali Abdussalm Treki.

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