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2,438 to 3,047 m: 4 1,524 to 2,437 m: 3 914 to 1,523 m: 1 under 914 m: 1 (2006) Airports - with unpaved runways: total: 36 1,524 to 2,437 m: 7 914 to 1,523 m: 20 under 914 m: 9 (2006) Pipelines: gas 70 km; liquid petroleum gas 9 km; oil 1,107 km (2006) Railways: total: 987 km narrow gauge: 987 km 1.000-m gauge (2005) Roadways: total: 50,000 km paved: 5,000 km unpaved: 45,000 km (2004) Waterways: navigation mainly on Benue River; limited during rainy season (2005) Merchant marine: total: 1 ship (1000 GRT or over) 38,613 GRT/68,820 DWT by type: petroleum tanker 1 foreign-owned: 1 (France 1) (2006) Ports and terminals: Douala, Limboh Terminal Military Cameroon Military branches: Cameroon Armed Forces: Army, Navy (includes naval infantry), Air Force (Armee de l'Air du Cameroun, AAC) (2006) Military service age and obligation: 18 years of age for voluntary military service; no conscription (1999) Manpower available for military service: males age 18-49: 3,525,307 females age 18-49: 3,461,406 (2005 est.) Manpower fit for military service: males age 18-49: 1,946,767 females age 18-49: 1,834,600 (2005 est.) Manpower reaching military service age annually: males age 18-49: 191,619 females age 18-49: 187,082 (2005 est.) Military expenditures - dollar figure: $230.2 million (2005 est.) Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 1.5% (2005 est.) Transnational Issues Cameroon Disputes - international: ICJ ruled in 2002 on the entire Cameroon-Nigeria land and maritime boundary but the parties formed a Joint Border Commission, which continues to meet regularly to resolve differences bilaterally and have commenced with demarcation in less-contested sections of the boundary, starting in Lake Chad in the north; implementation of the ICJ ruling on the Cameroon-Equatorial Guinea-Nigeria maritime boundary in the Gulf of Guinea is impeded by imprecisely defined coordinates and a sovereignty dispute between Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon over an island at the mouth of the Ntem River; Nigeria initially rejected cession of the Bakassi Peninsula, then agreed, but much of the indigenous population opposes cession; only Nigeria and Cameroon have heeded the Lake Chad Commission's admonition to ratify the delimitation treaty which also includes the Chad-Niger and Niger-Nigeria boundaries Refugees and
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