Burkina Faso:
Military & Transnational Issues


Military branches	Army, Air Force of Burkina Faso (Force Aerienne de Burkina Faso, FABF), National Gendarmerie (2006)
Military service age and obligation	18 years of age for compulsory military service; 20 years of age for voluntary military service (2001)
Manpower available for military service	males age 18-49: 2,651,687 (2005 est.)
Manpower fit for military service	males age 18-49: 1,530,324 (2005 est.)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP	1.2% (2006)

Disputes - international	two villages remain in dispute along the border with Benin; Benin accuses Burkina Faso of moving boundary pillars; in recent years citizens and rogue security forces rob and harass local populations on both sides of the poorly-defined Burkina Faso-Niger border; despite the presence of over 9,000 UN forces (UNOCI) in Cote d'Ivoire since 2004, ethnic conflict continues to spread into neighboring states who can no longer send their migrant workers to work in Ivorian cocoa plantations