Zuma presented Qaddafi with a four-point program including a cease-fire, humanitarian aid, protection for foreign nationals and political reforms, a spokesman for the African Union, Noureddine Mezni, said in an interview late yesterday with the BBC. Zuma said he will meet today with rebel leaders in Benghazi.

“The brother leader’s delegation has accepted the roadmap as presented by us. We have to give cease-fire a chance,” Zuma said, referring to Qaddafi’s side in the talks, Reuters reported from Tripoli.

After almost two months of fighting, troops loyal to Qaddafi and rebels in the North African country, Africa’s largest oil exporter, have fought to a stalemate, with battles moving back and forth in a small area along the coast, and neither side able to take or hold territory for long. Qaddafi has vowed not to leave Libya, and a cease-fire that would keep him in power has been flatly rejected by rebels.