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Introduction - Algeria: | Location - Algeria: | People - Algeria: | Government - Algeria: | Economy - Algeria: | Communications - Algeria: | Transportation - Algeria: | Military - Algeria: | Military branches | National Popular Army (ANP; includes Land Forces), Algerian National Navy (MRA), Air Force (QJJ), Territorial Air Defense Force (2005) | | Military service age and obligation | 19-30 years of age for compulsory military service; conscript service obligation - 18 months (6 months basic training, 12 months civil projects) (2006) | | Manpower available for military service | males age 19-49: 8,033,049
females age 19-49: 7,926,351 (2005 est.) | | Manpower fit for military service | males age 19-49: 6,590,079
females age 19-49: 6,711,285 (2005 est.) | | Manpower reaching military service age annually | males age 18-49: 374,639
females age 19-49: 369,021 (2005 est.) | | Refugees and internally displaced persons | refugees (country of origin): 90,000 (Western Saharan Sahrawi, mostly living in Algerian-sponsored camps in the southwestern Algerian town of Tindouf)
IDPs: 400,000-600,000 (conflict between government forces, Islamic insurgents) (2006) | | Military expenditures percent of gdp | 3.3% (2006) | | Disputes international | Algeria supports the Polisario Front exiled in Algeria and who represent the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic; Algeria rejects Moroccan administration of Western Sahara; most of the approximately 90,000 Western Saharan Sahrawi refugees are sheltered in camps in Tindouf, Algeria; Algerias border with Morocco remains an irritant to bilateral relations, each nation accusing the other of harboring militants and arms smuggling; Algeria remains concerned about armed bandits operating throughout the Sahel who sometimes destabilize southern Algerian towns; dormant disputes include Libyan claims of about 32,000 sq km still reflected on its maps of southeastern Algeria and the FLNs assertions of a claim to Chirac Pastures in southeastern Morocco | |
This page was last updated on 16 September, 2007 Source: CIA >>> |