Military manpower - military age and obligation:
18 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service;
conscript service obligation - 2 years (2004)
Military manpower - availability:
males age 15-49: 2,490,290 (2004 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 1,301,761 (2004 est.)
Military manpower - reaching military age annually:
males: 119,833 (2004 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$95.8 million (2003)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
1.5% (2003)
Transnational Issues Senegal
Disputes - international:
The Gambia and Guinea-Bissau attempt to stem refugees, cross border
raids, arms smuggling, and political instability from a separatist
movement in Senegal's Casamance region
Refugees and internally displaced persons:
IDPs: 17,000 (clashes between government troops and separatists in
Casamance region) (2004)
Illicit drugs:
transshipment point for Southwest and Southeast Asian heroin moving
to Europe and North America; illicit cultivator of cannabis