Honourable men arrive in Libya

See anyone who was democratically elected?

African Union mediators left Mauritania for Libya to attempt to negotiate a ceasefire.
Let us look as these honourable men.
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz of Mauritania was a colonel who came to power as a result of military coup. Abdel Aziz has the power to appoint the prime minister, military officials and civil servants in Mauritania.
Denis Sassou Nguesso of Congo-Brazzaville came to power through very dubious means. He is not known for his frugality. When Sassou Nguesso attended the United Nations General Assembly meeting in September 2006, almost £14,000 of room service at the Waldorf Astoria was added to his bill during another five-night stay. His entourage, including several members of his family, occupied 44 rooms which together ran up a bill of £130,000. The bills on September 19 included two bottles of Cristal champagne charged at £400. This was pointed out by the British newspaper The Sunday Times to be "comfortably more than the £106,000 that Britain gave the Republic of Congo in humanitarian aid in 2006."
Amadou Toumani Touré of Mali appears to be the angel in the group, although he also initially gained power via a coup. His presidency has been rather atypical; he is not a member of any political party and his government has members from all of the political parties in the country. He founded a children's foundation named Fondation pour l'enfance - a name shared with a similar organization, created by former French first-lady Danielle Mitterrand. President Toure now runs his foundation by the proxy of his wife, first lady Toure Lobbo Traore.
And Jacob Zuma of South Africa. A man who has ducked and darted his way through numerous allegations of corruption, rape and brutality. His utterances on sexual matters might endear him to some:

• He admitted that he had not used a condom when having sex with the woman who accused him of rape, despite knowing that she was HIV-positive. He stated in court that he took a shower afterwards to "cut the risk of contracting HIV". 
• Same-sex marriage was "a disgrace to the nation and to God": "When I was growing up, an ungqingili (a homosexual) would not have stood in front of me. I would knock him out."
• Zuma's solution to pregnancy in South African teenagers is to confiscate their babies and have the mothers taken to colleges and "forced" to obtain degrees.

So all in all plenty to chat about with the King of Kings Muammar Gaddafi and his family.

However, as a Mauritanian official told AFP, "They have just left, each in his own plane," it would appear they have a much chance of brokering a peace as they have of saving the ozone layer.