Senegal:
Military & Transnational Issues


Military branches	Army, Senegalese Navy (Marine Senegalaise), Senegalese Air Force (Armee de l'Air du Senegal) (2007)
Military service age and obligation	18 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service; conscript service obligation - 2 years (2004)
Manpower available for military service	males age 18-49: 2,443,840 females age 18-49: 2,461,939 (2005 est.)
Manpower fit for military service	males age 18-49: 1,558,175 females age 18-49: 1,642,533 (2005 est.)
Manpower reaching military age annually	males age 18-49: 129,331 females age 18-49: 129,398 (2005 est.)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP	1.4% (2005 est.)

Disputes - international	The Gambia and Guinea-Bissau attempt to stem separatist violence, cross border raids, and arms smuggling into their countries from Senegal's Casamance region, and in 2006, respectively accepted 6,000 and 10,000 Casamance residents fleeing the conflict; 2,500 Guinea-Bissau residents fled into Senegal in 2006 to escape armed confrontations along the border
Refugees and internally displaced persons	refugees (country of origin): 19,712 (Mauritania) IDPs: 22,400 (approximately 65% of the IDP population returned in 2005, but new displacement is occurring due to clashes between government troops and separatists in Casamance region) (2006)
Illicit drugs	transshipment point for Southwest and Southeast Asian heroin and South American cocaine moving to Europe and North America; illicit cultivator of cannabis