The 2008 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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СКАЧАТЬ aid - recipient:

      $659.6 million (2005)

      Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:

      $1.029 billion (31 December 2007 est.)

      Debt - external:

      $1.33 billion (2007)

      Market value of publicly traded shares:

      $NA

      Currency (code):

      Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (XOF); note - responsible authority is the Central Bank of the West African States

      Currency code:

      XOF

      Exchange rates:

      Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (XOF) per US dollar - 493.51 (2007), 522.59 (2006), 527.47 (2005), 528.29 (2004), 581.2 (2003) note: since 1 January 1999, the XOF franc has been pegged to the euro at a rate of 655.957 XOF francs per euro

      Communications

       Burkina Faso

      Telephones - main lines in use:

      94,800 (2006)

      Telephones - mobile cellular:

      1.611 million (2007)

      Telephone system:

      general assessment: services only fair; in 2006 the government sold a 51 percent stake in the national telephone company and ultimately plans to retain only a 23 percent stake in the company; fixed-line connections stand at less than 1 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular usage, fostered by multiple providers, is increasing rapidly from a low base domestic: microwave radio relay, open-wire, and radiotelephone communication stations international: country code - 226; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2007)

      Radio broadcast stations:

      AM 2, FM 26, shortwave 3

      Radios:

      394,020 (2000)

      Television broadcast stations:

      3 (1 national, 2 private)

      Televisions:

      131,340 (2002)

      Internet country code:

      .bf

      Internet hosts:

      116 (2008)

      Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

      1 (2002)

      Internet users:

      80,000 (2006)

      Transportation

       Burkina Faso

      Airports:

      33 (2007)

      Airports - with paved runways:

      total: 2 over 3,047 m: 1 2,438 to 3,047 m: 1 (2007)

      Airports - with unpaved runways:

      total: 31 1,524 to 2,437 m: 3 914 to 1,523 m: 11 under 914 m: 17 (2007)

      Railways:

      total: 622 km narrow gauge: 622 km 1.000-m gauge note: another 660 km of this railway extends into Cote D'Ivoire (2006)

      Roadways:

      total: 92,495 km paved: 3,857 km unpaved: 88,638 km (2004)

      Military

       Burkina Faso

      Military branches:

      Army, Air Force of Burkina Faso (Force Aerienne de Burkina Faso,

       FABF), National Gendarmerie (2008)

      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 16–49: 3,364,288 (2008 est.)

      Manpower fit for military service:

      males age 16–49: 2,115,948 (2008 est.)

      Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:

      male: 176,358 female: 173,856 (2008 est.)

      Military expenditures:

      1.2% of GDP (2006)

      Transnational Issues

       Burkina Faso

      Disputes - international:

      in September 2007, Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) intervened to attempt to resolve the dispute over two villages along the Benin-Burkina Faso border that remain from 2005 ICJ decision; 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

      This page was last updated on 18 December, 2008

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      @Burma

      Introduction

       Burma

      Background:

      Britain conquered Burma over a period of 62 years (1824–1886) and incorporated it into its Indian Empire. Burma was administered as a province of India until 1937 when it became a separate, self-governing colony; independence from the Commonwealth was attained in 1948. Gen. NE WIN dominated the government from 1962 to 1988, first as military ruler, then as self-appointed president, and later as political kingpin. Despite multiparty legislative elections in 1990 that resulted in the main opposition party - the National League for Democracy (NLD) - winning a landslide victory, the ruling junta refused to hand over power. NLD leader and Nobel Peace Prize recipient AUNG SAN SUU KYI, who was under house arrest from 1989 to 1995 and 2000 to 2002, was imprisoned in May 2003 and subsequently transferred to house arrest. After Burma's ruling junta in August 2007 unexpectedly increased fuel prices, tens of thousands of Burmese marched in protest, led by prodemocracy activists and Buddhist monks. In late September 2007, the government СКАЧАТЬ