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Introduction - Benin: | Location - Benin: | People - Benin: | Government - Benin: | Economy - Benin: | Communications - Benin: | Transportation - Benin: | Military - Benin: | Military branches | Benin Armed Forces: Ground Forces Command, Benin Navy, Benin Peoples Air Force (Force Aerienne Populaire de Benin, FAPB) (2007) | | Military service age and obligation | 21 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service; in practice, volunteers may be taken at the age of 18; both sexes are eligible for military service; conscript tour of duty - 18 months (2006) | | Manpower available for military service | males age 21-49: 1,295,230
females age 21-49: 1,301,936 (2005 est.) | | Manpower fit for military service | males age 21-49: 749,774
females age 21-49: 751,329 (2005 est.) | | Manpower reaching military service age annually | males age 18-49: 76,661
females: 75,068 (2005 est.) | | Refugees and internally displaced persons | refugees (country of origin): 26,632 (Togo) (2006) | | Military expenditures percent of gdp | 1.7% (2006) | | Disputes international | two villages remain in dispute along the border with Burkina Faso; Benin accused Burkina Faso of moving boundary pillars; much of Benin-Niger boundary, including tripoint with Nigeria, remains undemarcated; in 2005, Nigeria ceded thirteen villages to Benin, but border relations remain strained by rival gang clashes; Benin and Togo announced plans in 2006 to construct a joint hydroelectric dam on the Mona River at the southern end of the border | |
This page was last updated on 16 September, 2007 Source: CIA >>> |