Military manpower - reaching military age annually:
males: 81,862 (2004 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$33.3 million (2003)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
6% (2003)
Transnational Issues Burundi
Disputes - international:
Tutsi, Hutu, and other conflicting ethnic groups, associated
political rebels, armed gangs, and various government forces
continue fighting in the Great Lakes region, transcending the
boundaries of Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and
Uganda to gain control over populated and natural resource areas;
government heads pledge to end conflict, but localized violence
continues despite UN peacekeeping efforts
Refugees and internally displaced persons:
refugees (country of origin): 60,288 (Democratic Republic of the
Congo)
IDPs: 140,000 (armed conflict between government and rebels; most
IDPs in northern and western Burundi) (2004)
This page was last updated on 10 February, 2005
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