onnections only
about 3 per 100 persons; mobile cellular usage about 5 per 100
persons
domestic: HF radiotelephone communications and microwave radio relay
international: country code - 269; HF radiotelephone communications
to Madagascar and Reunion

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 1, FM 4, shortwave 1 (2001)

Radios:

90,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations:

NA

Televisions:

1,000 (1997)

Internet country code:

.km

Internet hosts:

8 (2008)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

1 (2000)

Internet users:

21,000 (2006)

Transportation
Comoros

Airports:

4 (2007)

Airports - with paved runways:

total: 4
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 3 (2007)

Roadways:

total: 880 km
paved: 673 km
unpaved: 207 km (2002)

Merchant marine:

total: 136
by type: bulk carrier 15, cargo 87, carrier 2, chemical tanker 5,
container 2, passenger 1, passenger/cargo 1, petroleum tanker 9,
refrigerated cargo 5, roll on/roll off 8, specialized tanker 1
foreign-owned: 68 (Bangladesh 2, Bulgaria 2, Cyprus 1, Greece 6,
India 2, Kenya 1, Kuwait 1, Lebanon 4, Norway 1, Pakistan 4,
Philippines 1, Russia 12, Saudi Arabia 1, Singapore 1, Syria 4,
Turkey 8, Ukraine 8, UAE 7, US 2) (2008)

Ports and terminals:

Mayotte, Mutsamudu

Military
Comoros

Military branches:

National Development Army (AND): Comoran Security Force; Comoran
Federal Police (2008)

Manpower available for military service:

males age 16-49: 167,850
females age 16-49: 167,362 (2008 est.)

Manpower fit for military service:

males age 16-49: 121,550
females age 16-49: 131,015 (2008 est.)

Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:

male: 7,901
female: 7,894 (2008 est.)

Military expenditures:

2.8% of GDP (2006)

Transnational Issues
Comoros

Disputes - international:

claims French-administered Mayotte and challenges France's and
Madagascar's claims to Banc du Geyser, a drying reef in the
Mozambique Channel; in May 2008, African Union forces are called in
to assist the Comoros military recapture Anjouan Island from rebels
who seized it in 2001

This page was last updated on 18 December, 2008

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Introduction
Congo, Democratic Republic of the

Background:

Established as a Belgian colony in 1908, the Republi