Military branches: Army, Navy, Air Force, National Gendarmerie,
National Police (Surete Nationale)
Military manpower - military age: 18 years of age
Military manpower - availability: males age 15-49: 1,938,693 (1997 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service: males: 1,012,181 (1997 est.)
Military manpower - reaching military age annually: males: 94,397 (1997 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure: $81 million (1996 est.)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 2.1% (1996 est.)
Transnational Issues
Disputes - international: short section of boundary with The Gambia is indefinite
Illicit drugs: transshipment point for Southwest and Southeast Asian heroin moving to Europe and North America; illicit cultivator of cannabis ______________________________________________________________________