|
|
|
       
| |
|
|
Burundi:
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other pages in this profile of Burundi:
Geography, People, Government, Economy, Communications & Transportation,
Geography, People, Government, Economy, Communications & Transportation,
| |
Military branches |
Definition National Defense Force (Forces de Defense Nationales, FDN): Army (includes Naval Detachment and Air Wing), Gendarmerie (2008) |
Military service age and obligation |
Definition 16 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service; children as young as 10 years of age have been conscripted into the armed forces; the enrollment of children is still not prohibited (2007) |
Manpower available for military service |
Definition males age 16-49: 1,878,544 females age 16-49: 1,851,676 (2008 est.) |
Manpower fit for military service |
Definition - World rank and map males age 16-49: 1,083,899 females age 16-49: 1,062,488 (2008 est.) |
Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually |
Definition males age 16-49: 98,105 females age 16-49: 98,533 (2008 est.) |
Military expenditures - percent of GDP |
Definition - World rank and map 5.9% (2006 est.) |
| |
Disputes - international |
Definition Burundi and Rwanda dispute sections of border on the Akanyaru/Kanyaru and the Kagera/Nyabarongo rivers, which have changed course since the 1960s, when the boundary was delimited; cross-border conflicts among Tutsi, Hutu, other ethnic groups, associated political rebels, armed gangs, and various government forces persist in the Great Lakes region |
Refugees and internally displaced persons |
Definition refugees (country of origin): 9,849 (Democratic Republic of the Congo) IDPs: 100,000 (armed conflict between government and rebels; most IDPs in northern and western Burundi) (2007) |
Trafficking in persons |
Definition current situation: Burundi is a source country for children trafficked for the purposes of child soldiering, domestic servitude, and commercial sexual exploitation; a small number of Burundian children may be trafficked internally for domestic servitude or commercial sexual exploitation; in early 2008, Burundian children were allegedly trafficked to Uganda, via Rwanda, for agricultural labor and commercial sexual exploitation tier rating: Tier 2 Watch List - Burundi is on the Tier 2 Watch List for the second consecutive year for its failure to provide sufficient evidence of increasing efforts to combat trafficking in persons in 2007; the government's inability to provide adequate protective services to children accused of association with armed groups and to conduct anti-trafficking law enforcement activities continue to be causes for concern; Burundi has not ratified the 2000 UN TIP Protocol (2008) |
|
Copyright 2008 World Sites Atlas (sitesatlas.com) |