):
1 (2002)

Internet users:
48,000 (2003)

Transportation Burkina Faso

Railways:
total: 622 km
narrow gauge: 622 km 1.000-m gauge
note:: another 660 km of this railway extends into Cote D'Ivoire
(2003)

Highways:
total: 12,506 km
paved: 2,001 km
unpaved: 10,505 km (1999)

Ports and harbors:
none

Airports:
33 (2003 est.)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 2
over 3,047 m: 1
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1 (2004 est.)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 31
1,524 to 2,437 m: 3
914 to 1,523 m: 11
under 914 m: 17 (2004 est.)

Military Burkina Faso

Military branches:
Army, Air Force

Military manpower - military age and obligation:
18 years of age for compulsory military service; 20 years of age
for voluntary military service (2001)

Military manpower - availability:
males age 15-49: 3,047,306 (2004 est.)

Military manpower - fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 1,552,212 (2004 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$52.7 million (2003)

Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
1.6% (2003)

Transnational Issues Burkina Faso

Disputes - international:
two villages are in dispute along the border with Benin; Benin
accuses Burkina Faso of moving boundary pillars; Burkina Faso border
regions have become a staging area for Liberia and Cote d'Ivoire
rebels and an asylum for refugees caught in regional fighting; the
Ivoirian Government accuses Burkina Faso of supporting Ivoirian
rebels

This page was last updated on 10 February, 2005

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@Burma

Introduction Burma

Background:
Britain conquered Burma over a period of 62 years (1824-1886) and
incorporated it into its Indian Empire. Burma was administered as a
province of India until 1937 when it became a separate,
self-governing colony; independence from the Commonwealth was
attained in 1948. Gen. NE WIN dominated the government from 1962 to
1988, first as military ruler, then as self-appointed president, and
later as political kingpin. Despite multiparty legislative elections
in 1990 that resulted in the main opposition party - the National
League for Democracy (NLD) - winning a landslide victory, the ruling
junta refused to hand over power. NLD leader and Nobel Peace Prize
recipient AUNG SAN SUU KYI, who was under house arrest from 1989 to
1995