Guinea-Bissau:
Military & Transnational Issues


Military branches	People's Revolutionary Armed Force (FARP): Army, Navy, Air Force; paramilitary force
Military service age and obligation	18 years of age for selective compulsory military service (2006)
Manpower available for military service	males age 18-49: 287,542 females age 18-49: 297,295 (2005 est.)
Manpower fit for military service	males age 18-49: 152,681 females age 18-49: 161,033 (2005 est.)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP	3.1% (2005 est.)

Disputes - international	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	refugees (country of origin): 7,320 (Senegal) (2006)
Illicit drugs	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