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National Security Force (NSF): Somali Army (2011)
18 is the legal minimum age for compulsory and voluntary military service (2012)
males age 16-49: 2,260,175
females age 16-49: 2,159,293 (2010 est.)
males age 16-49: 1,331,894
females age 16-49: 1,357,051 (2010 est.)
male: 101,634
female: 101,072 (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 133
Ethiopian forces invaded southern Somalia and routed Islamist Courts from Mogadishu in January 2007; "Somaliland" secessionists provide port facilities in Berbera to landlocked Ethiopia and have established commercial ties with other regional states; "Puntland" and "Somaliland" "governments" seek international support in their secessionist aspirations and overlapping border claims; the undemarcated former British administrative line has little meaning as a political separation to rival clans within Ethiopia's Ogaden and southern Somalia's Oromo region; Kenya works hard to prevent the clan and militia fighting in Somalia from spreading south across the border, which has long been open to nomadic pastoralists
IDPs: 1.1 million (civil war since 1988, clan-based competition for resources; 2011 famine; insecurity because of fighting between al-Shabaab and TFG allied forces) (2012)
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