The Pendulum
Hunger and Poverty in Somalia: The Starvation of the Country’s Most Vulnerable
Jenna Maunsell Poverty is a persistent problem in Africa. An estimated 490 million people in Africa live below the poverty line. Poverty...
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The Pendulum
- Dec 7, 2022
- 3 min
The Qatar Quandary: Human Rights Abuses and the World Cup
Gavin Hunt On November 20 of this year, the FIFA World Cup opened to fireworks and fanfare in Qatar’s Al Bayt Stadium, beginning a 29 day...
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The Pendulum
- Sep 23, 2022
- 6 min
Chinese Involvement in Africa: the Controversy of “Private” Security
Matthew M. Ployhart There are many instances in history in which a more advanced power has influenced the development of another nation...
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The Pendulum
- Nov 15, 2021
- 4 min
Africa’s Antidote: The World’s First Malaria Vaccine
Mary Grace Nimmer Following recent years of stagnation in the decades-long fight against malaria, the World Health Organization (WHO) has...
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The Pendulum
- Nov 2, 2021
- 3 min
Legal victories for Nigerians against the Shell Corporation
Ian Stewart Patricia Ogbonnaya shows the height oil rose to during an oil spill. Photograph: Maggie Andresen/The Guardian Shell, one of...
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The Pendulum
- Sep 6, 2021
- 4 min
Gender-Fluid Practices Amongst Strict Gender Binary Societies
Jade Killion As the world watches the horrific events in Afghanistan, the hearts of the international community break for those who are...
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The Pendulum
- Apr 26, 2021
- 4 min
Hotel Corona
Hannah Roebuck In March of 2020, COVID-19 was tearing through Jerusalem. Case numbers were growing exponentially, hospitals were...
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The Pendulum
- Apr 18, 2021
- 3 min
Mozambique: The Moving Goalposts of the War on Terror
Ian Stewart Last week, hundreds of militant members of Al Shabaab, an Islamic group based in northern Mozambique (unrelated to the Somali...
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The Pendulum
- Mar 3, 2021
- 3 min
The Complicated Case of the White Ant
Nate Matzko On February 4th, 2021, the International Criminal Court (ICC) convened in The Hague, Netherlands, to deliver a verdict on the...
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The Pendulum
- Nov 20, 2020
- 4 min
Chocolate Chip Cookies: Eldorado Park Remembers Lockies
Nate Matzko “They shot Lockies!” On August 26th, 16-year-old Nathaniel Julies left his home to make his evening rounds around his...
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The Pendulum
- Oct 19, 2020
- 4 min
Trinkets, Souvenirs, or Art?: African Art in the Face of Western Imperialism
Devante Kee-Young For centuries, Africa has been—and continues to be—exploited by more industrialized technological powers such as the...
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The Pendulum
- Oct 12, 2020
- 3 min
COVID Amongst Conflict and Crisis: How Syria Continues to Crumble Under the Pandemic
Jade Killion Battered and bruised from almost a decade of violent conflict, humanitarian crises, and economic hardships, Syria has...
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The Pendulum
- Sep 14, 2020
- 4 min
A Mother’s Life in Occupied Palestine
Amani Altwam It’s been 9 years since my mother has gone home. 9 years since she’s seen her childhood house. 9 years since she’s smelled...
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The Pendulum
- Apr 19, 2020
- 2 min
Female Genital Mutilation: A Feminine Sorrow
Mary Ann Fahmy In the poem Feminine Pain, Somalian Poet Dahabo Ali Muse writes, “it is what my grandmother called the three feminine...
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The Pendulum
- Apr 3, 2020
- 3 min
The Lebanese Deviation
Gavin Hunt Revolution. Last year was full of it, and the trend continues into this one. Hong Kong, Chile, Algeria, Spain, Ecuador,...
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The Pendulum
- Feb 28, 2020
- 4 min
Coronavirus: Will it Demand Disease Diplomacy?
Aynsley Hartney and Austin R. Schlueter As of the time this article was written, there are over 80,000 reported cases of the coronavirus...
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The Pendulum
- Feb 21, 2020
- 3 min
Chaos or Community? Xenophobia in South Africa
Tremain Prioleau Chaos or community? This is the question that looms over the beautiful skies of South Africa. A nation once revered for...
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The Pendulum
- Feb 6, 2020
- 3 min
Controversial, Yet Cultural: Female Circumcision in Somalia
Eden Wallace While the practice of male circumcision remains prevalent in Western cultures, the practice of female circumcision is...
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The Pendulum
- Oct 11, 2019
- 3 min
The Blue Bubble
Jade Killion An unknown death toll with hundreds injured. Seven months of protests. No mass media coverage. Sudan has been taken over by...
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The Pendulum
- Oct 3, 2019
- 2 min
Examining the Israeli Elections
Tyler McDougald On April 9th, 2019, Israel held an election for their twenty-first Knesset, the country’s parliament. On September 17th,...
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