Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 4.2% (FY98)
@Sri Lanka:Transnational Issues
Disputes - international: none
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SUDAN
@Sudan:Introduction
Background: Military dictatorships promulgating an Islamic government have mostly run the country since independence from the UK in 1956. Over the past two decades, a civil war pitting black Christians and animists in the south against the Arab-Muslims of the north has cost at least 1.5 million lives in war and famine-related deaths, as well as the displacement of millions of others.
@Sudan:Geography
Location: Northern Africa, bordering the Red Sea, between Egypt and
Eritrea
Geographic coordinates: 15 00 N, 30 00 E