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Cameroon:
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Other pages in this profile of Cameroon:
Geography, People, Government, Economy, Communications & Transportation,
Geography, People, Government, Economy, Communications & Transportation,
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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; the government makes periodic calls for volunteers (2006) |
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 age annually |
males age 18-49: 191,619 females age 18-49: 187,082 (2005 est.) |
Military expenditures - percent of GDP |
1.3% (2006) |
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Disputes - international |
Joint Border Commission with Nigeria reviewed 2002 ICJ ruling on the entire boundary and bilaterally resolved differences, including June 2006 Greentree Agreement that immediately cedes sovereignty of the Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon with a phase-out of Nigerian control within two years while resolving patriation issues; implementation of the ICJ ruling on the Cameroon-Equatorial Guinea-Nigeria maritime boundary in the Gulf of Guinea is pending due to imprecisely defined coordinates and a sovereignty dispute between Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon over an island at the mouth of the Ntem River; 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 internally displaced persons |
refugees (country of origin): 39,303 (Chad), 9,711 (Nigeria), 13,000 (Central African Republic); note - there are an additional 10,000 Central African refugees unregistered with UNHCR as of December 2006 (2006) |
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