The United Nations Force Intervention Brigade: Wither the SADC/ICGLR Synchronised Peace Support Efforts in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo Recurring Conflict?

From the time it deployed in the eastern DRC in 2013 up to the first quarter of 2016, arguably no much tangible progress has been made by the United Nations Force Intervention Brigade (UN FIB).The security situation in eastern Congo continues to be unstable.This instability has serious direct security threats and spillover effects on respective nei

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Mechanical Characteristics of Structures and Ground Deformation Caused by Shield Tunneling Under-Passing Highways in Complex Geological Conditions Based on the MJS Method

This study defined the height ratio of soft-rock strata and established a numerical model for analyzing shield construction in upper-soft, lower-hard composite strata together with field monitoring data.In this way, the influence of shield tunneling while passing under the pile foundation of the clasps culvert at a short distance (the shortest dist

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