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Military
branches of Ethiopia:
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Ethiopian National
Defense Force (ENDF): Ground Forces, Air Force
note: Ethiopia is landlocked and has no
navy; following the secession of Eritrea,
Ethiopian naval facilities remained in Eritrean
possession |
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Military
service age and obligation in Ethiopia:
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18 years of age for
compulsory and voluntary military service (2001)
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Manpower
available for military service:
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males age 18-49:
14,568,277
females age 18-49: 14,482,885 (2005 est.)
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Manpower fit
for military service in Ethiopia:
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males age 18-49:
8,072,755
females age 18-49: 7,902,660 (2005 est.)
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Manpower
reaching military service age annually:
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males age 18-49:
803,777
females age 18-49: 801,789 (2005 est.)
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Military
expenditures of Ethiopia - dollar figure:
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$295.9 million (2005
est.) |
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Military
expenditures - percent of GDP:
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3.4% |
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Disputes of
Ethiopians international :
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Eritrea and Ethiopia
agreed to abide by the 2002 Eritrea-Ethiopia
Boundary Commission's (EEBC) delimitation
decision, but mutual animosities, accusations,
and armed posturing prevail, preventing
demarcation despite international intervention;
Ethiopia refuses to withdraw to the delimited
boundary until technical errors made by the EEBC
that ignored "human geography" are addressed,
including the award of Badme, the focus of the
1998-2000 war; Eritrea insists that the EEBC
decision be implemented immediately without
modifications; Ethiopia has only an
administrative line and no international border
with the Oromo region of southern Somalia where
it maintains alliances with local clans in
opposition to the unrecognized Somali Interim
Government in Mogadishu; "Somaliland"
secessionists provide port facilities and trade
ties to landlocked Ethiopia; efforts to
demarcate the porous boundary with Sudan have
been delayed by civil war |
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Refugees and
internally displaced persons:
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refugees (country
of origin): 90,451 (Sudan) 16,470 (Somalia)
8,719 (Eritrea)
IDPs: 132,000 (border war with Eritrea
from 1998-2000 and ethnic clashes in Gambela;
most IDPs are in Tigray and Gambela Provinces)
(2005) |
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Illicit drugs
in Ethiopia:
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transit hub for
heroin originating in Southwest and Southeast
Asia and destined for Europe and North America,
as well as cocaine destined for markets in
southern Africa; cultivates qat (khat) for local
use and regional export, principally to Djibouti
and Somalia (legal in all three countries); the
lack of a well-developed financial system limits
the country's utility as a money-laundering
center |
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