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Guinea-Bissau:
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Other pages in this profile of Guinea-Bissau:
Geography, People, Government, Economy, Communications & Transportation,
Geography, People, Government, Economy, Communications & Transportation,
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Military branches |
Definition People's Revolutionary Armed Force (FARP): Army, Navy, Air Force; paramilitary force |
Military service age and obligation |
Definition 18 years of age for selective compulsory military service (2006) |
Manpower available for military service |
Definition males age 16-49: 344,087 females age 16-49: 347,886 (2008 est.) |
Manpower fit for military service |
Definition - World rank and map males age 16-49: 188,605 females age 16-49: 195,429 (2008 est.) |
Military expenditures - percent of GDP |
Definition - World rank and map 3.1% (2005 est.) |
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Disputes - international |
Definition in 2006, political instability within Senegal's Casamance region resulted in thousands of Senegalese refugees, cross-border raids, and arms smuggling into Guinea-Bissau |
Refugees and internally displaced persons |
Definition refugees (country of origin): 7,454 (Senegal) (2007) |
Trafficking in persons |
Definition current situation: Guinea-Bissau is a source country for children trafficked primarily for forced begging and forced agricultural labor to other West African countries tier rating: Tier 2 Watch List - for the second year in a row, Guinea-Bissau is on the Tier 2 Watch List for its failure to combat severe forms of trafficking in persons, as evidenced by the continued failure to pass an anti-trafficking law and inadequate efforts to investigate or prosecute trafficking crimes or convict and punish trafficking offenders (2008) |
Illicit drugs |
Definition increasingly important transit country for South American cocaine enroute to Europe; enabling environment for trafficker operations thanks to pervasive corruption; archipelago-like geography around the capital facilitates drug smuggling |
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