Military manpower - reaching military age annually:
males: 91,231 (2004 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$55.4 million (2003)

Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
2.1% (2003)

Transnational Issues Chad

Disputes - international:
civil war in Sudan overlaps into Chad as both states step up border
patrols, leaving refugees and rebel groups in both countries; Chad
serves as an important mediator in the Sudanese civil conflict;
Chadian Aozou rebels reside in southern Libya; Lake Chad Commission
continues to urge signatories Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria to
ratify delimitation treaty over lake region; Chad rejects Nigerian
request to redemarcate boundary, the site of periodic cross-border
incidents

Refugees and internally displaced persons:
refugees (country of origin): 200,000 (Sudan), 30,000 (Central
African Republic) (2004)

This page was last updated on 10 February, 2005

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