unpaved runways:

total: 26
1,524 to 2,437 m: 7
914 to 1,523 m: 10
under 914 m: 9 (2007)

Pipelines:

gas 89 km; liquid petroleum gas 4 km; oil 758 km (2007)

Railways:

total: 894 km
narrow gauge: 894 km 1.067-m gauge (2006)

Roadways:

total: 17,289 km
paved: 864 km
unpaved: 16,425 km (2004)

Waterways:

1,125 km (commercially navigable on Congo and Oubanqui rivers) (2006)

Merchant marine:

registered in other countries: 1 (Congo, Democratic Republic of the
1) (2008)

Ports and terminals:

Brazzaville, Djeno, Impfondo, Ouesso, Oyo, Pointe-Noire

Military
Congo, Republic of the

Military branches:

Congolese Armed Forces (Forces Armees Congolaises, FAC): Army, Navy,
Congolese Air Force (Armee de l'Air Congolaise), Gendarmerie,
Special Presidential Security Guard (GSSP) (2008)

Military service age and obligation:

18 years of age for voluntary military service; women allowed to
serve (2007)

Manpower available for military service:

males age 16-49: 842,771
females age 16-49: 833,624 (2008 est.)

Manpower fit for military service:

males age 16-49: 519,296
females age 16-49: 509,564 (2008 est.)

Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:

male: 45,671
female: 45,248 (2008 est.)

Military expenditures:

3.1% of GDP (2006)

Transnational Issues
Congo, Republic of the

Disputes - international:

the location of the boundary in the broad Congo River with the
Democratic Republic of the Congo is indefinite except in the Pool
Malebo/Stanley Pool area

Refugees and internally displaced persons:

refugees (country of origin): 46,341 (Democratic Republic of Congo);
6,564 (Rwanda)
IDPs: 48,000 (multiple civil wars since 1992; most IDPs are ethnic
Lari) (2007)

Trafficking in persons:

current situation: Republic of the Congo is a source and destination
country for children trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and
commercial sexual exploitation; girls are trafficked from rural
areas within the country for commercial sexual exploitation, forced
street vending, and domestic servitude; children are trafficked from
other African countries for domestic servitude, forced market
vending, and forced labor in the fishing industry
tier rating: Tier 2 Watch List - Republic of the Congo is on the
Tier 2 Watch List for its failure to show evidence of increasing
efforts to combat trafficking in persons in 2007; struggling to
reco