Military manpower—availability:
males age 15-49: 10,874,744 (1999 est.)
Military manpower—fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 5,536,277 (1999 est.)
Military expenditures—dollar figure: $250 million (1997)
Military expenditures—percent of GDP: 4.6% (1997)
Transnational Issues
Disputes—international: the Democratic Republic of the Congo is in the grip of a civil war that has drawn in military forces from neighboring states, with Uganda and Rwanda supporting the rebel movement which occupies much of the eastern portion of the state; most of the Congo River boundary with the Republic of the Congo is indefinite (no agreement has been reached on the division of the river or its islands, except in the Pool Malebo/Stanley Pool area)
Illicit drugs: illicit producer of cannabis, mostly for domestic consumption
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Geography