Eritrea
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Introduction - Eritrea: | Location - Eritrea: | People - Eritrea: | Government - Eritrea: | Economy - Eritrea: | Communications - Eritrea: | Transportation - Eritrea: | Military - Eritrea: | Military branches | Army, Navy, Air Force | | Military service age and obligation | 18 years of age for voluntary and compulsory military service; 16-month conscript service obligation (2004) | | Manpower available for military service | males age 18-49: 893,361
females age 18-49: 891,662 (2005 est.) | | Manpower fit for military service | males age 18-49: 555,553
females age 18-49: 562,426 (2005) | | Manpower reaching military service age annually | males age 18-49: 50,156
females age 18-49: 49,746 (2005 est.) | | Military expenditures percent of gdp | 6.3% (2006 est.) | | Disputes international | Eritrea and Ethiopia agreed to abide by 2002 Ethiopia-Eritrea Boundary Commissions (EEBC) delimitation decision but, neither party responded to the revised line detailed in the November 2006 EEBC Demarcation Statement; UN Peacekeeping Mission to Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE), which has monitored the 25-km-wide Temporary Security Zone in Eritrea since 2000, is extended for six months in 2007 despite Eritrean restrictions on its operations and reduced force of 17,000; Sudan accuses Eritrea of supporting eastern Sudanese rebel groups | |
This page was last updated on 16 September, 2007 Source: CIA >>> |