Brian Dabbs

Brian is a journalist based in Kenya. He previously wrote and edited for the English edition of the Egyptian independent newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm.

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Kenyans See the Italian Mafia's Hand in Worsening Drug Trade

Kenyans See the Italian Mafia's Hand in Worsening Drug Trade

Italian migrants started moving to the sunny Kenyan coast in the 1980s, but now locals say the country's infamous criminal element has come with them, spreading drugs and prostitution to a place that already had plenty. More »

Cairo Divided by Debate Over New Constitution

Cairo Divided by Debate Over New Constitution

Are elections scheduled too early to be truly democratic? More »

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, Eying Election, Joins Secular Coalition

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, Eying Election, Joins Secular Coalition

The Brotherhood is forming a coalition with liberal parties to help unify the Islamist political party and to improve their odds in the upcoming elections More »

Refugees Stuck in Limbo at Desolate Egypt-Libya Border

Refugees Stuck in Limbo at Desolate Egypt-Libya Border

Civilians fleeing Libya's violence -- many of them ethnic Africans forcibly expelled by rebels -- have found themselves in a no-mans-land stretch of desert More »

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