Manpower available for military service:
males age 18-49: 1,787,727
females age 18-49: 1,714,792 (2005 est.)
Manpower fit for military service:
males age 18-49: 1,022,360
females age 18-49: 1,038,697 (2005 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$22.34 million (2005 est.)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
0.9% (2005 est.)
Transnational Issues Somalia
Disputes - international:
Ethiopian forces invade southern Somalia and rout Islamist courts
from Moghadishu in January 2007; "Somaliland" secessionists provide
port facilities in Berbera to landlocked Ethiopia and have
established commercial ties with other regional states; "Puntland"
and "Somaliland" "governments" seek international support in their
secessionist aspirations and overlapping border claims; the
undemarcated former British administrative line has little meaning
as a political separation to rival clans within Ethiopia's Ogaden
and southern Somalia's Oromo region; Kenya works hard to prevent the
clan and militia fighting in Somalia from spreading south across the
border, which has long been open to nomadic pastoralists
Refugees and internally displaced persons:
IDPs: 400,000 (civil war since 1988, clan-based competition for
resources) (2006)
This page was last updated on 8 February, 2007
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