Burkina Faso
Military: Burkina Faso
Military branches:
Army, Air Force of Burkina Faso (Force Aerienne de Burkina Faso, FABF), National Gendarmerie (2011)
Military service age and obligation:
18 years of age for voluntary military service; no conscription; women may serve in supporting roles (2012)
Manpower available for military service:
males age 16-49: 3,735,735 (2010 est.)
Manpower fit for military service:
males age 16-49: 2,366,168
females age 16-49: 2,367,673 (2010 est.)
Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:
male: 193,905
female: 191,662 (2010 est.)
Military expenditures:
country comparison to the world: 121
Transnational Issues: Burkina Faso
Disputes - international:
adding to illicit cross-border activities, Burkina Faso has issues concerning unresolved boundary alignments with its neighbors; demarcation is currently underway with Mali, the dispute with Niger was referred to the ICJ in 2010, and a dispute over several villages with Benin persists; Benin retains a border dispute with Burkina Faso around the town of Koualou
Refugees and internally displaced persons:
refugees (country of origin): 49,975 (Mali) (2013)