Military manpower - reaching military age annually:
males: 186,691 (2003 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$719 million (FY98)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
4.2% (FY98)
Transnational Issues Sri Lanka
Disputes - international: none
This page was last updated on 18 December, 2003
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@Sudan
Introduction Sudan
Background:
Military regimes favoring Islamic-oriented governments have
dominated national politics since independence from the UK in 1956.
Sudan has been embroiled in a civil war for all but 10 years of this
period (1972-82). The wars are rooted in northern economic,
political, and social domination of non-Muslim, non-Arab southern
Sudanese. Since 1983, the war and war- and famine-related effects
have led to more than 2 million deaths and over 4 million people
displaced. The ruling regime is a mixture of military elite and an
Islamist party that came to power in a 1989 coup. Some northern
opposition parties have made common cause with the southern rebels
and entered the war as a part of an anti-government alliance. Peace
talks gained momentum in 2002-03 with the signing of several
accords, including a cease-fire agreement.