Military branches:
Army, Air Force
Military manpower - military age and obligation: 18 years of age for compulsory military service; 20 years of age for voluntary military service (2001)
Military manpower - availability:
males age 15-49: 3,047,306 (2004 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 1,552,212 (2004 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$52.7 million (2003)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
1.6% (2003)
Transnational Issues Burkina Faso
Disputes - international:
two villages are in dispute along the border with Benin; Benin
accuses Burkina Faso of moving boundary pillars; Burkina Faso border
regions have become a staging area for Liberia and Cote d'Ivoire
rebels and an asylum for refugees caught in regional fighting; the
Ivoirian Government accuses Burkina Faso of supporting Ivoirian
rebels
This page was last updated on 10 February, 2005
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