l connections
exist

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 2, FM NA, shortwave 2 (2000)

Radios:
345,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
1 (2000)

Televisions:
1,000 (1997)

Internet country code:
.er

Internet hosts:
1,047 (2004)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
5 (2001)

Internet users:
9,500 (2003)

Transportation Eritrea

Railways:
total: 306 km
narrow gauge: 306 km 0.950-m gauge
note: railway is being rebuilt; 117 km open (2003)

Highways:
total: 4,010 km
paved: 874 km
unpaved: 3,136 km (1999 est.)

Ports and harbors:
Assab (Aseb), Massawa (Mits'iwa)

Merchant marine:
total: 5 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 16,069 GRT/19,549 DWT
registered in other countries: 1 (2004 est.)
by type: bulk 1, cargo 1, liquefied gas 1, petroleum tanker 1, roll
on/roll off 1

Airports:
18 (2003 est.)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 4
over 3,047 m: 2
2,438 to 3,047 m: 2 (2004 est.)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 13
over 3,047 m: 1
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 5
914 to 1,523 m: 4
under 914 m: 2 (2004 est.)

Military Eritrea

Military branches:
Army, Navy, Air Force

Military manpower - military age and obligation:
18 years of age for voluntary and compulsory military service;
conscript service obligation - 16 months (2004)

Military manpower - fit for military service:
NA (2004)

Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$77.9 million (2003)

Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
11.8% (2003)

Transnational Issues Eritrea

Disputes - international:
Eritrea and Ethiopia agreed to abide by 2002 Ethiopia-Eritrea
Border Commission's (EEBC) delimitation decision, but demarcation
has been delayed, despite intense international intervention, by
Ethiopian insistence that the decision ignored "human geography,"
made technical errors in the delimitation, and incorrectly awarded
Badme, the focus of the 1998-2000 war, and other areas to Eritrea
and Eritrea's insistence on not deviating from the commission's
decision; UN Peacekeeping Mission to Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE)
continues to monitor a 25km-wide Temporary Security Zone in Eritrea
until the demarcation; Sudan accuses Eritrea of supporting Sudanese
rebel groups; Eritrea protests Yemeni fishing around the Hanish
Islands awarded to Eritrea by the ICJ in 1999

Refugees and internally displaced persons:
IDPs: 59,0