Namibia
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Introduction - Namibia: | Location - Namibia: | People - Namibia: | Government - Namibia: | Economy - Namibia: | Communications - Namibia: | Transportation - Namibia: | Military - Namibia: | Military branches | Namibian Defense Force: Army, Navy, Air Wing (2006) | | Military service age and obligation | 18 years of age for voluntary military service (2001) | | Manpower available for military service | males age 18-49: 441,293 (2005 est.) | | Manpower fit for military service | males age 18-49: 217,118 (2005 est.) | | Military expenditures percent of gdp | 3.7% (2006) | | Disputes international | concerns from international experts and local populations over the Okavango Delta ecology in Botswana and human displacement scuttled Namibian plans to construct a hydroelectric dam on Popa Falls along the Angola-Namibia border; managed dispute with South Africa over the location of the boundary in the Orange River; Namibia has supported, and in 2004 Zimbabwe dropped objections to, plans between Botswana and Zambia to build a bridge over the Zambezi River, thereby de facto recognizing a short, but not clearly delimited, Botswana-Zambia boundary in the river | |
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