Airports:

1 (2007)

Airports - with paved runways:

total: 1
over 3,047 m: 1 (2007)

Roadways:

total: 3,742 km
paved: 723 km
unpaved: 3,019 km (2004)

Waterways:

390 km (on River Gambia; small ocean-going vessels can reach 190 km)
(2006)

Merchant marine:

total: 5
by type: passenger/cargo 4, petroleum tanker 1 (2008)

Ports and terminals:

Banjul

Military
Gambia, The

Military branches:

Office of the Chief of Defense: Gambian National Army (National
Guard, GNA), Gambian Navy (GN) (2008)

Military service age and obligation:

18 years of age for voluntary military service; no conscription
(2008)

Manpower available for military service:

males age 16-49: 379,668
females age 16-49: 384,438 (2008 est.)

Manpower fit for military service:

males age 16-49: 230,202
females age 16-49: 244,480 (2008 est.)

Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:

male: 19,650
female: 19,582 (2008 est.)

Military expenditures:

0.5% of GDP (2006)

Transnational Issues
Gambia, The

Disputes - international:

attempts to stem refugees, cross-border raids, arms smuggling, and
other illegal activities by separatists from southern Senegal's
Casamance region, as well as from conflicts in other west African
states

Refugees and internally displaced persons:

refugees (country of origin): 5,955 (Sierra Leone) (2007)

Trafficking in persons:

current situation: The Gambia is a source, transit, and destination
country for children and women trafficked for the purposes of forced
labor and commercial sexual exploitation; women and girls, and to a
lesser extent boys, are trafficked for sexual exploitation - in
particular to meet the demand for European sex tourism - and for
domestic servitude; boys are trafficked within the country for
forced begging and street vending; Gambian women and children may be
trafficked to Europe through trafficking schemes disguised as
migrant smuggling
tier rating: Tier 2 Watch List - for a second consecutive year, The
Gambia is on the Tier 2 Watch List for its failure to provide
evidence of increasing efforts to eliminate trafficking; The Gambia
failed to report any trafficking arrests, prosecutions, or
convictions in 2007, and the government demonstrated weak victim
protection efforts during the reporting period (2008)

This page was last updated on 18 December, 2008

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