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 Somalia
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This page was last updated on 16 September, 2007| Introduction - Somalia: |  | Location - Somalia: |  | People - Somalia: |  | Government - Somalia: |  | Economy - Somalia: |  | Communications - Somalia: |  | Transportation - Somalia: |  | Military - Somalia: |  | Military branches | no national-level armed forces (2007) |  |  |  | Military service age and obligation | 18 years of age (est.) (2001) |  |  |  | Manpower available for military service | males age 18-49: 1,787,727 females age 18-49: 1,714,792 (2005 est.)
 |  |  |  | Manpower fit for military service | males age 18-49: 1,022,360 females age 18-49: 1,038,697 (2005 est.)
 |  |  |  | Military expenditures percent of gdp | 0.9% (2005 est.) |  |  |  | Disputes international | 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 Ethiopias Ogaden and southern Somalias 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 |  |  |  Source: CIA >>>
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