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Introduction - Ethiopia: | Location - Ethiopia: | People - Ethiopia: | Government - Ethiopia: | Economy - Ethiopia: | Communications - Ethiopia: | Transportation - Ethiopia: | Military - Ethiopia: | Military branches | Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF): Ground Forces, Ethiopian Air Force
note: Ethiopia is landlocked and has no navy; following the secession of Eritrea, Ethiopian naval facilities remained in Eritrean possession | | Military service age and obligation | 18 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service (2001) | | Manpower available for military service | males age 18-49: 14,568,277
females age 18-49: 14,482,885 (2005 est.) | | Manpower fit for military service | males age 18-49: 8,072,755
females age 18-49: 7,902,660 (2005 est.) | | Manpower reaching military service age annually | males age 18-49: 803,777
females age 18-49: 801,789 (2005 est.) | | Refugees and internally displaced persons | refugees (country of origin): 73,927 (Sudan), 15,901 (Somalia), 10,700 (Eritrea)
IDPs: 100,000-280,000 (border war with Eritrea from 1998-2000 and ethnic clashes in Gambela; most IDPs are in Tigray and Gambela Provinces) (2006) | | Military expenditures percent of gdp | 3% (2006) | | Disputes international | Eritrea and Ethiopia agreed to abide by the 2002 Eritrea-Ethiopia 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; the undemarcated former British administrative line has little meaning as a political separation to rival clans within Ethiopias Ogaden and southern Somalias Oromo region; Ethiopian forces invaded southern Somalia and routed Islamist Courts from Mogadishu in January 2007; Somaliland secessionists provide port facilities in Berbera and trade ties to landlocked Ethiopia; civil unrest in eastern Sudan has hampered efforts to demarcate the porous boundary with Ethiopia | |
This page was last updated on 16 September, 2007 Source: CIA >>> |