Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-05-27

  • In Washington preparing for hectic week of meetings in State Department, Senate, House, USAID, World Bank and with press – for Zim education #
  • Positive meetings on Monday with Global Partnership for Education, Newsweek and State Department. Message – GPA is flawed but still only way #
  • Foreign Policy article http://t.co/okCkcra6 interview with Senator David Coltart #
  • In Zimbabwe, A Longtime Foe Sees a Different Side Of Robert Mugabe http://t.co/ro6fDeY7 via @thedailybeast #
  • Sorry I know as Minister of Sport I am meant to be unbiased but I can't resist saying "Bosso you beauties!" Top of the Zim log and improving #
  • Via @nprnews: How Crumbling U.S. Dollars Bailed Out Zimbabwe http://t.co/iQG1UF6X #
  • Sharing Power in Zimbabwe | Daily Podcast http://t.co/GkbufukL via @CatoInstitute #
  • Happy Africa today everyone! #
  • Zimbabwean law must be respected by all but it must also be implemented in a manner which is just and commensurate with the offence. #
  • I am deeply concerned by the arrest and detention of Zimbabwe Academy of Music supporter Petroc Trelawny. Law must be implemented justly. #
  • I question why it is necessary to detain someone over a weekend for an offence which, if proved, will never obtain a custodial sentence #
  • It is ironic that at the very moment I am in the US seeking to have sanctions lifted hardliners work within Zim to ensure they are retained #
  • The news of Trelawny's arrest is splattered across Fox news in the US undermining our efforts to have sanctions lifted. Is this deliberate? #
  • I have argued this week that there are hardliners who do not want sanctions lifted because it serves their purposes – it is useful cover #
  • Those behind this arrest clearly have another agenda-could the dictates of law not have been met some other way without doing Z so much harm #