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Military branches	Kenyan Army, Kenyan Navy, Kenyan Air Force (2007)

Military service age and obligation	18 years of age (est.) (2004)

Manpower available for military service	males age 18-49: 7,303,153 females age 18-49: 7,083,726 (2005 est.)

Manpower fit for military service	males age 18-49: 3,963,532 females age 18-49: 3,471,926 (2005 est.)

Refugees and internally displaced persons	refugees (country of origin): 150,459 (Somalia), 76,646 (Sudan), 14,862 (Ethiopia) IDPs: 431,150 (KANU attacks on opposition tribal groups in 1990s) (2006)

Military expenditures percent of gdp	2.8% (2006)

Trafficking in persons	current situation: Kenya is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for forced labor and sexual exploitation; children are trafficked within the country for domestic servitude, street vending, agricultural labor, and sexual exploitation; men, women, and girls are trafficked to the Middle East, other African nations, Western Europe, and North America for domestic servitude, enslavement in massage parlors and brothels, and manual labor; Chinese women trafficked for sexual exploitation reportedly transit Nairobi and Bangladeshis may transit Kenya for forced labor in other countries tier rating: Tier 2 Watch List - Kenya is placed on the Tier 2 Watch List due to a lack of evidence of increasing efforts to combat severe forms of trafficking

Disputes international	Kenya served as an important mediator in brokering Sudans north-south separation in February 2005; Kenya provides shelter to almost a quarter of a million refugees, including Ugandans who flee across the border periodically to seek protection from Lords Resistance Army (LRA) rebels; Kenya works hard to prevent the clan and militia fighting in Somalia from spreading across the border, which has long been open to nomadic pastoralists; the boundary that separates Kenyas and Sudans sovereignty is unclear in the Ilemi Triangle, which Kenya has administered since colonial times