004 est.)

Heliports:
2 (2004 est.)

Military Sudan

Military branches:
Sudanese People's Armed Forces (SPAF): Army, Navy, Air Force,
Popular Defense Force

Military service age and obligation:
18-30 years of age for compulsory military service; conscript
service obligation - 3 years (August 2004)

Manpower available for military service:
males age 18-49: 8,291,695 (2005 est.)

Manpower fit for military service:
males age 18-49: 5,427,474 (2005 est.)

Manpower reaching military service age annually:
males: 442,915 (2005 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$587 million (2001 est.) (2004)

Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
3% (1999) (2004)

Transnational Issues Sudan

Disputes - international:
the effects of Sudan's almost constant ethnic and rebel militia
fighting since the mid-twentieth century have penetrated all of its
border states who provide shelter for fleeing refugees and cover to
disparate domestic and foreign conflicting elements; since 2003,
Janjawid armed militia and Sudanese military have driven about
200,000 Darfur region refugees into eastern Chad; large numbers of
Sudanese refugees have also fled to Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, the
Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo;
southern Sudan provides shelter to Ugandans seeking periodic
protection from soldiers of the Lord's Resistance Army; Sudan
accuses Eritrea of supporting Sudanese rebel groups; efforts to
demarcate the porous boundary with Ethiopia have been delayed by
civil and ethnic fighting in Sudan; Kenya's administrative boundary
extends into the southern Sudan, creating the "Ilemi Triangle";
Egypt and Sudan retain claims to administer triangular areas that
extend north and south of the 1899 Treaty boundary along the 22nd
Parallel, but have withdrawn their military presence; Egypt is
economically developing the "Hala'ib Triangle" north of the Treaty
Line; periodic violent skirmishes with Sudanese residents over water
and grazing rights persist among related pastoral populations from
the Central African Republic along the border

Refugees and internally displaced persons:
refugees (country of origin): 108,251 (Eritrea) 5,023 (Chad) 7,983
(Uganda)
IDPs: 4.367 million (internal conflict since 1980s; ongoing
genocide) (2004)

This page was last updated on 20 October, 2005

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