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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "27.4% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "21% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "41.3% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "0.7% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "2.7% (2018/19)"
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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "18.9% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "19.4% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "30.4% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "8.3% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "NA"
},

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "9.6% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "6.9% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "11.8% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "1.9% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "16.8% (2017/18)"
},

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "5.4% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "11.8% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "17.4% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "6.1% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "27% (2018/19)"
},
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"text": "18 years of age for voluntary military service (2021)"
},
"Military deployments": {
"text": "750 Central African Republic (MINUSCA); 5,400 Somalia (AMISOM) (Jan 2022)"
"text": "750 Central African Republic (MINUSCA); 5,400 Somalia (ATMIS) (2022)"
},
"Military - note": {
"text": "in addition to its foreign deployments, the FDN as of 2021 was focused on internal security missions, particularly against rebel groups opposed to the regime such as National Forces of Liberation (FNL), the Resistance for the Rule of Law-Tabara (aka RED Tabara), and Popular Forces of Burundi (FPB or FOREBU); these groups were based in the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo and have carried out sporadic attacks in Burundi"

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "6.1% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "8.3% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "13.8% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "2.7% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "29.2% (2019)"
},
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},
"Executive branch": {
"chief of state": {
"text": "Interim President Mahamat Idriss DEBY; note - on 20 April 2021, newly reelected President Idriss DEBY Itno, Lt. Gen. died of injuries he sustained following clashes between government forces he was commanding and insurgents in the northern part of the country; following his death, Mahamat took control of the country and dismissed the Chadian parliament, promising elections within eighteen months"
"text": "Interim President Mahamat Idriss DEBY (since 20 April 2021); note - on 20 April 2021, newly reelected President Idriss DEBY Itno, Lt. Gen. died of injuries he sustained following clashes between government forces he was commanding and insurgents in the northern part of the country; following his death, Mahamat Idriss DEBY took control of the country and dismissed the Chadian parliament, promising elections within eighteen months"
},
"head of government": {
"text": "Interim President Mahamat Idriss DEBY; note - on 20 April 2021, President Idriss DEBY Itno, Lt. Gen. died of injuries he sustained following clashes between government forces he was commanding and insurgents in the northern part of the country; following his death, Mahamat took control of the country and dismissed the Chadian parliament, promising elections within eighteen months"
"text": "Interim President Mahamat Idriss DEBY (since 20 April 2021); note - on 20 April 2021, President Idriss DEBY Itno, Lt. Gen. died of injuries he sustained following clashes between government forces he was commanding and insurgents in the northern part of the country; following his death, Mahamat Idriss DEBY took control of the country and dismissed the Chadian parliament, promising elections within eighteen months"
},
"cabinet": {
"text": "Council of Ministers"
},
"elections/appointments": {
"text": "president directly elected by absolute majority popular vote in 2 rounds if needed for a 5-year term (no term limits); election last held on 11 April 2021"
"text": "president directly elected by absolute majority popular vote in 2 rounds if needed for a 5-year term (no term limits); election last held on 11 April 2021; note - on 20 April 2021, military officials suspended the Constitution and formed a Transitional Military Council, pledging to hold democratic elections in October 2022"
},
"election results": {
"text": "Lt. Gen. Idriss DEBY Itno reelected; percent of vote - Lt. Gen. Idriss DEBY (MPS) 79.3%, Pahimi PADACKET Albert (RNDT) 10.3%, Lydie BEASSEMDA (Party for Democracy and Independence) 3.16%"
}
},
"note": "<strong>note:</strong> on 26 April 2021 the Transitional Military Council named Albert Pahimi PADACKE Prime Minister"
},
"Legislative branch": {
"description": {
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},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
"text": "388,550 (Sudan), 122,421 (Central African Republic), 42,549 (Cameroon), 19,724 (Nigeria) (2022)"
"text": "388,550 (Sudan), 122,958 (Central African Republic), 42,549 (Cameroon), 19,886 (Nigeria) (2022)"
},
"IDPs": {
"text": "406,573 (majority are in the east) (2022)"

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "9.6% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "14.5% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "26.8% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "2.1% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "12.3% (2014/15)"
},

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "6.7% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "12.8% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "22.7% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "2.9% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "23.1% (2017/18)"
},
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},
"Diplomatic representation in the US": {
"chief of mission": {
"text": "Ambassador Francois Nkuna BALUMUENE (since 17 September 2015)"
"text": "Ambassador (vacant)<br><br>Charge d'Affaires Thomas MBIMBA, Counselor (since 21 December 2021)"
},
"chancery": {
"text": "1100 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 725, Washington DC 20036"
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"text": "18-45 years of age for voluntary (men and women) and compulsory (men only) military service; unclear how much conscription is used (2021)"
},
"Military - note": {
"text": "<p>the modern FARDC was created out of the armed factions of the two Congo wars of 1996-1997 and 1998-2003; as part of the peace accords that ended the last war, the largest rebel groups were incorporated into the FARDC; many armed groups, however, continue to fight (note - there are over 100 illegal armed groups in the country by some estimates); as of 2022, the FARDC was actively engaged in combat operations against numerous armed groups inside the country, particularly in the eastern provinces of Ituri, North Kivu, and South Kivu, although violence also continues in Maniema, Kasai, Kasai Central, and Tanganyika provinces; the military is widely assessed as being unable to provide adequate security throughout the country due to insufficient training, poor morale and leadership, ill-discipline and corruption, low equipment readiness, a fractious ethnic makeup, and the sheer size of the country and diversity of armed rebel groups</p> <br>MONUSCO, the United Nations peacekeeping and stabilization force in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has operated in the central and eastern parts of the country since 1999; as of February 2022, MONUSCO had around 15,000 personnel; MONUSCO includes a Force Intervention Brigade (FIB; 3 infantry battalions, plus artillery and special forces), the first ever UN peacekeeping force specifically tasked to carry out targeted offensive operations to neutralize and disarm groups considered a threat to state authority and civilian security"
"text": "<p>the modern FARDC was created out of the armed factions of the two Congo wars of 1996-1997 and 1998-2003; as part of the peace accords that ended the last war, the largest rebel groups were incorporated into the FARDC; many armed groups, however, continue to fight (note - there are over 100 illegal armed groups in the country by some estimates); as of 2022, the FARDC was actively engaged in combat operations against numerous armed groups inside the country, particularly in the eastern provinces of Ituri, North Kivu, and South Kivu, although violence also continues in Maniema, Kasai, Kasai Central, and Tanganyika provinces; the military is widely assessed as being unable to provide adequate security throughout the country due to insufficient training, poor morale and leadership, ill-discipline and corruption, low equipment readiness, a fractious ethnic makeup, and the sheer size of the country and diversity of armed rebel groups<br><br></p> MONUSCO, the United Nations peacekeeping and stabilization force in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has operated in the central and eastern parts of the country since 1999; as of February 2022, MONUSCO had around 15,000 personnel; MONUSCO includes a Force Intervention Brigade (FIB; 3 infantry battalions, plus artillery and special forces), the first ever UN peacekeeping force specifically tasked to carry out targeted offensive operations to neutralize and disarm groups considered a threat to state authority and civilian security"
}
},
"Terrorism": {

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "11.4% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "7.3% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "13.2% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "1.4% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "11% (2018/19)"
},
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},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
"text": "345,622 (Central African Republic), 129,983 (Nigeria) (2022)"
"text": "345,798 (Central African Republic), 138,381 (Nigeria) (2022)"
},
"IDPs": {
"text": "936,767 (2022) (includes far north, northwest, and southwest)"

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "7.8% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "20.3% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "29.5% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "11.1% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "16.9% (2012)"
},

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"text": "18 years of age for military service; no conscription (2021)"
},
"Military - note": {
"text": "the 2013 coup resulted in the institutional collapse of the FACA; its forces were overwhelmed and forced to flee to neighboring countries; reportedly only 10% of the FACA returned after the coup, and it has struggled to rebuild in the years of instability since; the European Union, France, Russia, the UN, and the US have provided various levels of security assistance <br><br>in 2018, the UN Security Council approved Russian security assistance for the CAR to help train and advise FACA personnel, as well as transport them to operational areas, provide logistical support, and assist with medical evacuation; Russia sent private military contractors, and as of late 2021, there were reportedly as many as 2,000 providing assistance to the FACA, as well as performing other security roles such as guarding mines and government officials; some Russian contractors and the CAR forces they supported have been accused of carrying out indiscriminate killings, using excessive force against civilians, and looting<br><br>the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) has operated in the country since 2014; its peacekeeping mission includes providing security, protecting civilians, facilitating humanitarian assistance, disarming and demobilizing armed groups, and supporting the country’s fragile transitional government; in November 2019, the UN Security Council extended the mandate of the MINUSCA peacekeeping mission another year; as of 2022, MINUSCA had about 14,000 total personnel<br><br>the European Union Training Mission in the Central African Republic (EUTM-RCA) has operated in the country since 2016, providing advice, training, and educational programs to the country's security forces<br> <p> </p> (2022)"
"text": "the 2013 coup resulted in the institutional collapse of the FACA; its forces were overwhelmed and forced to flee to neighboring countries; reportedly only 10% of the FACA returned after the coup, and it has struggled to rebuild in the years of instability since; the European Union, France, Russia, the UN, and the US have provided various levels of security assistance <br><br>in 2018, the UN Security Council approved Russian security assistance for the CAR to help train and advise FACA personnel, as well as transport them to operational areas, provide logistical support, and assist with medical evacuation; Russia sent private military contractors, and as of early 2022, there were reportedly as many as 2,000 providing assistance to the FACA, as well as performing other security roles such as guarding mines and government officials; some Russian contractors and the CAR forces they supported have been accused of carrying out indiscriminate killings, using excessive force against civilians, and looting<br><br>the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) has operated in the country since 2014; its peacekeeping mission includes providing security, protecting civilians, facilitating humanitarian assistance, disarming and demobilizing armed groups, and supporting the country’s fragile transitional government; in November 2019, the UN Security Council extended the mandate of the MINUSCA peacekeeping mission another year; as of 2022, MINUSCA had about 14,000 total personnel<br><br>the European Union Training Mission in the Central African Republic (EUTM-RCA) has operated in the country since 2016, providing advice, training, and educational programs to the country's security forces<br> <p> </p> (2022)"
}
},
"Transnational Issues": {

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "11.8% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "11.4% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "17.3% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "5.4% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "NA"
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"text": "18 years of age for voluntary military service (men and women); 16-25 years of age for voluntary military training; no conscription (2021)"
},
"Military deployments": {
"text": "960 Somalia (AMISOM) (2022)"
"text": "960 Somalia (ATMIS) (2022)"
},
"Military - note": {
"text": "<p>as of 2022, China, France, Italy, Japan, and the US maintained bases in Djibouti for regional military missions, including counter-terrorism, counter-piracy, crisis response, and security assistance (note – France has multiple bases and hosts troop contingents from Germany and Spain); the EU and NATO have also maintained a presence to support multinational naval counter-piracy operations and maritime training efforts; in 2017, Djibouti and Saudi Arabia announced plans for the Saudis to build a military base there, although no start date was announced</p>"

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "32% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "24.3% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "48.1% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "0.4% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "7% (2014)"
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},
"Diplomatic representation in the US": {
"chief of mission": {
"text": "Ambassador Miguel Ntutumu EVUNA ANDEME (since 23 February 2015)"
"text": "Ambassador Miguel Ntutumu EVUNA Andeme (since 23 February 2015)"
},
"chancery": {
"text": "2020 16th Street NW, Washington, DC 20009"

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "5% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "7.5% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "14.7% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "0.2% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "NA"
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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "4.5% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "5.1% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "8.8% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "1.3% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "21.1% (2019)"
},
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"note": "note - in November 2021, the Ethiopian Government issued a nationwide state of emergency that enabled officials to order military-age citizens to undergo training and accept military duty in support of the Tigray conflict"
},
"Military deployments": {
"text": "prior to the 2020-21 Tigray conflict, 5-10,000 Somalia (4,500 for AMISOM; the remainder under a bilateral agreement with Somalia); 3,200 Sudan (UNISFA); 1,500 South Sudan (UNMISS) (2022)",
"text": "5-10,000 Somalia (4,500 for ATMIS; the remainder under a bilateral agreement with Somalia; note - bilateral figures are prior to the conflict with Tigray); 250 Sudan (UNISFA); 1,500 South Sudan (UNMISS) (2022)",
"note": "note - in August 2021, Sudan asked the UN to remove the Ethiopian troops from the UNISFA mission"
},
"Military - note": {
"text": "each of the nine states has a regional and/or a \"special\" paramilitary security forces that report to regional civilian authorities; local militias operate across the country in loose and varying coordination with these regional security and police forces, the Ethiopian Federal Police (EFP), and the Ethiopian military; the EFP reports to the Ministry of Peace, which was created in October of 2018<br><br>since November 2020, the Government of Ethiopia has been engaged in a protracted military conflict with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), the former governing party of the Tigray Region; the government deemed a TPLF attack on Ethiopia military forces as a domestic terrorism incident and launched a military offensive in response; the TPLF asserted that its actions were self-defense in the face of planned Ethiopian Government action to remove it from the provincial government; the Ethiopian Government sent large elements of the ENDF into Tigray to remove the TPLF and invited militia and paramilitary forces from the states of Afar and Amara, as well as the military forces of Eritrea, to assist; the fighting included heavy civilian and military casualties with widespread abuses reported; the conflict continued as of April 2022<br><br>the military forces of the Tigray regional government are known as the Tigray Defense Force (TDF); the TDF is comprised of state paramilitary forces, local militia, and troops that defected from the ENDF; it reportedly had up to 250,000 fighters at the start of the conflict; in August 2021, the TPLF struck an alliance with the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA)"
"text": "each of the nine states has a regional and/or a \"special\" paramilitary security forces that report to regional civilian authorities; local militias operate across the country in loose and varying coordination with these regional security and police forces, the Ethiopian Federal Police (EFP), and the Ethiopian military; the EFP reports to the Ministry of Peace, which was created in October of 2018<br><br>since November 2020, the Government of Ethiopia has been engaged in a protracted military conflict with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), the former governing party of the Tigray Region; the government deemed a TPLF attack on Ethiopia military forces as a domestic terrorism incident and launched a military offensive in response; the TPLF asserted that its actions were self-defense in the face of planned Ethiopian Government action to remove it from the provincial government; the Ethiopian Government sent large elements of the ENDF into Tigray to remove the TPLF and invited militia and paramilitary forces from the states of Afar and Amara, as well as the military forces of Eritrea, to assist; the fighting included heavy civilian and military casualties with widespread abuses reported; in March 2022, the Ethiopian Government declared a  truce to facilitate the flow of humanitarian aid into the Tigray region; the TPLF reciprocated with a truce of its own; since the announcement, both sides have observed the truce and ceased hostilities, although tensions remained high, and Ethiopian military operations continued against the OLA in Oromia as of mid-2022<br><br>the military forces of the Tigray regional government are known as the Tigray Defense Force (TDF); the TDF is comprised of state paramilitary forces, local militia, and troops that defected from the ENDF; it reportedly had up to 250,000 fighters at the start of the conflict; in August 2021, the TPLF struck an alliance with the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA)"
}
},
"Terrorism": {

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "10.3% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "11.1% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "21.4% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "0.8% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "11.6% (2019/20)"
},
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},
"Diplomatic representation in the US": {
"chief of mission": {
"text": "Ambassador Dawda D. FADERA (since 24 January 2018)"
"text": "Ambassador (vacant)<br><br>Charge d’Affaires Mustapha SOSSEH (16 March 2022)"
},
"chancery": {
"text": "5630 16th Street NW, Washington, DC 20011"

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "10.9% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "3.5% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "6.6% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "0.3% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "12.6% (2017/18)"
},
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},
"Telecommunication systems": {
"general assessment": {
"text": "challenged by unreliable electricity and shortage of skilled labor, Ghana seeks to extend telecom services nationally; investment in fiber infrastructure and off-grid solutions provide data coverage to over 23 million people; launch of LTE has improved mobile data services, including m-commerce and banking; moderately competitive Internet market, most through mobile networks; international submarine cables, and terrestrial cables have improved Internet capacity&nbsp; (2020)"
"text": "challenged by unreliable electricity and shortage of skilled labor, Ghana seeks to extend telecom services nationally; investment in fiber infrastructure and off-grid solutions provide data coverage to over 23 million people; launch of LTE has improved mobile data services, including m-commerce and banking; moderately competitive Internet market, most through mobile networks; international submarine cables, and terrestrial cables have improved Internet capacity (2022)"
},
"domestic": {
"text": "fixed-line data about 1 per 100 subscriptions; competition among multiple mobile-cellular providers has spurred growth with a voice subscribership of more than 130 per 100 persons (2020)"
"text": "fixed-line data about 1 per 200 subscriptions; competition among multiple mobile-cellular providers has spurred growth with a voice subscribership of more than 130 per 100 persons (2022)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 233; landing points for the SAT-3/WASC, MainOne, ACE, WACS and GLO-1 fiber-optic submarine cables that provide connectivity to South and West Africa, and Europe; satellite earth stations - 4 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); microwave radio relay link to Panaftel system connects Ghana to its neighbors; GhanaSat-1 nanosatellite launched in 2017 (2019)"
"text": "country code - 233; landing points for the SAT-3/WASC, MainOne, ACE, WACS and GLO-1 fiber-optic submarine cables that provide connectivity to South and West Africa, and Europe; satellite earth stations - 4 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); microwave radio relay link to Panaftel system connects Ghana to its neighbors; GhanaSat-1 nanosatellite launched in 2017 (2017)"
},
"note": "<strong>note:</strong> the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced downturn, particularly in mobile device production; many network operators delayed upgrades to infrastructure; progress towards 5G implementation was postponed or slowed in some countries; consumer spending on telecom services and devices was affected by large-scale job losses and the consequent restriction on disposable incomes; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home became evident, and received some support from governments"
},

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},
"Diplomatic representation in the US": {
"chief of mission": {
"text": "Ambassador (vacant) Chargé d’Affaires (vacant)   <p> </p>"
"text": "Ambassador Kerfalla YANSANE (since 24 January 2018) <p> </p>"
},
"chancery": {
"text": "2112 Leroy Place NW, Washington, DC 20008"

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "10.3% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "9.4% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "17.9% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "0.9% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "12.8% (2016)"
},
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},
"Diplomatic representation in the US": {
"chief of mission": {
"text": "Ambassador Mamadou HAIDARA (since 28 March 2018)"
"text": "Ambassador Ibrahima TOURE (since 13 January 2022))"
},
"chancery": {
"text": "2424 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008"

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "7.1% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "11.1% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "19.5% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "2.7% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "11.2% (2014)"
},
@ -1221,7 +1232,7 @@
"text": "no conscription; 18-26 years of age for male and female voluntary service (under 18 with parental consent; upper limit 30 years of age for specialists, tradesmen, or women with a diploma; 39 years of age for chaplains/imams), with a 9-year obligation (7 years for Kenyan Navy) and subsequent 3-year re-enlistments; applicants must be Kenyan citizens (2022)"
},
"Military deployments": {
"text": "260 Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO); 3,650 Somalia (AMISOM) (2022)"
"text": "260 Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO); 3,650 Somalia (ATMIS) (2022)"
},
"Military - note": {
"text": "Kenyan military forces intervened in Somalia in October 2011 to combat the al Qaida-affiliated al-Shabaab terrorist group, which had conducted numerous cross-border attacks into Kenya; in November 2011, the UN and the African Union invited Kenya to incorporate the force into the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM); Kenyan forces were formally integrated into AMISOM in February 2012; as of 2022, they consisted of approximately 3,600 troops and were responsible for AMISOM’s Sector 2 comprising Lower and Middle Jubba (see Appendix-T for additional details on al-Shabaab) (2022)"
@ -1242,7 +1253,7 @@
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
"text": "279,145 (Somalia), 141,414 (South Sudan), 21,001 (Ethiopia), 19,036 (Democratic Republic of the Congo), 7,521 (Burundi) (2022)"
"text": "279,197 (Somalia), 142,113 (South Sudan), 21,001 (Ethiopia), 19,036 (Democratic Republic of the Congo), 7,521 (Burundi) (2022)"
},
"IDPs": {
"text": "190,000 (election-related violence, intercommunal violence, resource conflicts, al-Shabaab attacks in 2017 and 2018) (2020)"

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "9.9% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "8.2% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "14.3% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "2% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "10.9% (2019/20)"
},

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "16.6% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "24.3% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "43.1% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "5.4% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "10.5% (2018)"
},
@ -600,7 +611,7 @@
},
"Diplomatic representation in the US": {
"chief of mission": {
"text": "Ambassador Sankatana Gabriel MAJA, Counselor (28 May 2021)"
"text": "Ambassador (vacant); Charge d’Affaires Masopha Phoofolo Moses KAO, Counselor (28 May 2021)<br> <p> </p>"
},
"chancery": {
"text": "2511 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008"

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},
"Diplomatic representation in the US": {
"chief of mission": {
"text": "Charge d'Affaires Khaled DAIEF (since October 2021)"
"text": "Ambassador (vacant); Charge d'Affaires Khaled DAIEF (since 27 August 2021)"
},
"chancery": {
"text": "<p>1460 Dahlia Street NW, Washington, DC 20012</p>"

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "5.3% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "27.8% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "42.7% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "12.8% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "26.4% (2018)"
},
@ -594,7 +605,7 @@
},
"Legislative branch": {
"description": {
"text": "bicameral Parliament consists of:<br>Senate or Antenimieran-Doholona (reestablished on 22 January 2016, following the December 2015 senatorial election) (63 seats; 42 members indirectly elected by an electoral college of municipal, communal, regional, and provincial leaders and 21 appointed by the president of the republic; members serve 5-year terms); note - in December 2020 President RAJOELINA ordered that the senate now have only 18 seats, 6 of which are appointed by the president, the remaining 12 indirectly elected by an electoral college of municipal, communal, regional, and provincial leaders;<br>National Assembly or Antenimierampirenena (151 seats; 87 members directly elected in single-seat constituencies by simple majority vote and 64 directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by closed-list proportional representation vote; members serve 5-year terms)"
"text": "bicameral Parliament consists of:<br>Senate or Antenimieran-Doholona (reestablished on 22 January 2016, following the December 2015 senatorial election) (63 seats; 42 members indirectly elected by an electoral college of municipal, communal, regional, and provincial leaders and 21 appointed by the president of the republic; members serve 5-year terms); note - in December 2020 President RAJOELINA ordered that the senate now have only 18 seats, 6 of which are appointed by the president, the remaining 12 indirectly elected by an electoral college of municipal, communal, regional, and provincial leaders<br>National Assembly or Antenimierampirenena (151 seats; 87 members directly elected in single-seat constituencies by simple majority vote and 64 directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by closed-list proportional representation vote; members serve 5-year terms)"
},
"elections": {
"text": "Senate - last held 29 December 2015 (scheduled for 2021; note - opposition parties boycotted this legislative election)<br>National Assembly - last held on 27 May 2019 (next to be held in 2024)"

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "5.8% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "10.8% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "17.5% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "4.1% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "9% (2019)"
},
@ -632,7 +643,7 @@
},
"Diplomatic representation in the US": {
"chief of mission": {
"text": "Ambassador Edward Yakobe SAWERENGERA (since 16 September 2016)"
"text": "Ambassador Esme Jynet CHOMBO (since 19 April 2022)"
},
"chancery": {
"text": "2408 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008"

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "8.6% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "8.3% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "15.6% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "1% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "18.1% (2019)"
},
@ -573,7 +584,7 @@
"text": "several previous; latest drafted August 1991, approved by referendum 12 January 1992, effective 25 February 1992, suspended briefly in 2012"
},
"amendments": {
"text": "proposed by the president of the republic or by members of the National Assembly; passage requires two-thirds majority vote by the Assembly and approval in a referendum; constitutional sections on the integrity of the state, its republican and secular form of government, and its multiparty system cannot be amended; note - the transition government intends to adopt a new constitution"
"text": "proposed by the president of the republic or by members of the National Assembly; passage requires two-thirds majority vote by the Assembly and approval in a referendum; constitutional sections on the integrity of the state, its republican and secular form of government, and its multiparty system cannot be amended; note - the transition government intends to adopt a new constitution, though not schedule has been announced"
}
},
"Legal system": {
@ -629,7 +640,7 @@
},
"Judicial branch": {
"highest courts": {
"text": "Supreme Court or Cour Supreme (consists of 19 judges organized into judicial, administrative, and accounting sectons); Constitutional Court (consists of 9 judges)"
"text": "Supreme Court or Cour Supreme (consists of 19 judges organized into judicial, administrative, and accounting sections); Constitutional Court (consists of 9 judges)"
},
"judge selection and term of office": {
"text": "Supreme Court judges appointed by the Ministry of Justice to serve 5-year terms; Constitutional Court judges selected - 3 each by the president, the National Assembly, and the Supreme Council of the Magistracy; members serve single renewable 7-year terms"
@ -1184,7 +1195,7 @@
"text": "until announcing its withdrawal in May of 2022, Mali was part of a five-nation anti-jihadist task force known as the G5 Sahel Group, set up in 2014 with Burkina Faso, Chad, Mauritania, and Niger; Mali had committed 1,100 troops and 200 gendarmes to the force (2022)"
},
"Military - note": {
"text": "prior to the coup in August 2020 and military takeover in May 2021, the Malian military had intervened in the political arena at least five times since the country gained independence in 1960; two attempts failed (1976 and 1978), while three succeeded in overturning civilian rule (1968, 1991, and 2012); the military collapsed in 2012 during the fighting against Tuareg rebels and Islamic militants; it has been since rebuilt, but continues to have limited capabilities and is heavily reliant on external assistance <br><br>as of 2022, Malian security forces were actively conducting operations against separatist insurgent and terrorist groups, particularly in the central and northern regions of the country <br><br>the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) has operated in the country since 2013; the Mission's responsibilities include providing security, rebuilding Malian security forces, protecting civilians, supporting national political dialogue, and assisting in the reestablishment of Malian government authority; as of February 2022, MINUSMA had around 14,000 personnel deployed<br><br>the European Union Training Mission in Mali (EUTM-M) and the French military (under a separate, bi-lateral mission) have also operated in the country since 2013; the EUTM-M provides advice and training to the Malian Armed Forces and military assistance to the G5 Sahel Joint Force; as 2021, the mission included almost 700 personnel from 25 European countries; as of early 2022, the French had approximately 2,400 troops providing military assistance and conducting counter-terrorism/counter-insurgency operations; note - in February 2022, France and European members of the French-led Task Force Takuba announced they would remove their personnel from Mali, citing obstructions from the ruling military government; in April of 2022, the EU said it would halt its training program in Mali<br><br>in December 2021, the Malian military government contracted with a Russian private military company to provide training for local armed forces and security to senior Malian officials (2022)"
"text": "prior to the coup in August 2020 and military takeover in May 2021, the Malian military had intervened in the political arena at least five times since the country gained independence in 1960; two attempts failed (1976 and 1978), while three succeeded in overturning civilian rule (1968, 1991, and 2012); the military collapsed in 2012 during the fighting against Tuareg rebels and Islamic militants; it has been since rebuilt, but continues to have limited capabilities and is heavily reliant on external assistance <br><br>as of 2022, Malian security forces were actively conducting operations against several separatist insurgent and terrorist groups, particularly in the central and northern regions of the country <br><br>the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) has operated in the country since 2013; the Mission's responsibilities include providing security, rebuilding Malian security forces, protecting civilians, supporting national political dialogue, and assisting in the reestablishment of Malian government authority; as of February 2022, MINUSMA had around 14,000 personnel deployed<br><br>the European Union Training Mission in Mali (EUTM-M) and the French military (under a separate, bi-lateral mission) have also operated in the country since 2013; the EUTM-M provides advice and training to the Malian Armed Forces and military assistance to the G5 Sahel Joint Force; as 2021, the mission included almost 700 personnel from 25 European countries; as of early 2022, the French had approximately 2,400 troops providing military assistance and conducting counter-terrorism/counter-insurgency operations; note - in February 2022, France and European members of the French-led Task Force Takuba announced they would remove their personnel from Mali, citing obstructions from the ruling military government; in April of 2022, the EU said it would halt its training program in Mali<br><br>in December 2021, the Malian military government contracted with a Russian private military company to provide training for local armed forces and security to senior Malian officials (2022)"
}
},
"Terrorism": {

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"text": "26.1% (2016)",
"note": "<strong>note:</strong> does not include data from the former Western Sahara"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "14.5% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "28.2% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "0.8% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "2.6% (2017/18)",
"note": "<strong>note:</strong> does not include data from the former Western Sahara"

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "10.8% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "20.2% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "37.3% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "3% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "NA"
},

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "12.7% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "10.7% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "19.3% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "2.1% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "19.2% (2018)"
},

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "7.2% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "14.3% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "23% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "5.6% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "15.6% (2014/15)"
},

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "5.5% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "7.4% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "13.7% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "1.1% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "31.3% (2019)"
},
@ -1205,7 +1216,7 @@
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
"text": "187,148 (Nigeria), 62,077 (Mali) (refugees and asylum seekers) (2022)"
"text": "187,139 (Nigeria), 62,077 (Mali) (refugees and asylum seekers) (2022)"
},
"IDPs": {
"text": "264,257 (includes the regions of Diffa, Tillaberi, and Tahoua; unknown how many of the 11,000 people displaced by clashes between government forces and the Tuareg militant group, Niger Movement for Justice, in 2007 are still displaced; inter-communal violence; Boko Haram attacks in southern Niger, 2015) (2022)"

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "8.9% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "3.7% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "6.9% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "0.5% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "18.4% (2019/20)"
},
@ -1252,7 +1263,7 @@
"note": "note - Nigeria has committed an Army combat brigade (approximately 3,000 troops) to the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF), regional counter-terrorism force comprised of troops from Benin, Cameroon, Chad, and Niger; the national MNJTF troop contingents are deployed within their own country territories, although cross‐border operations are conducted periodically"
},
"Military - note": {
"text": "as of 2022, the Nigerian military was sub-Saharan Africa’s largest and regarded as one of its most capable forces; it was focused largely on internal security and faced a number of challenges that have stretched its resources, however; the Army was deployed in all 36 of the country's states; in the northeast, it was conducting counterinsurgency/counter-terrorist operations against the Boko Haram (BH) and Islamic State in West Africa (ISWA) terrorist groups, where it has deployed as many as 70,000 troops at times and jihadist-related violence has killed an estimated 35-40,000 people, mostly civilians, since 2009 (as of 2022); in the northwest, it faced growing threats from criminal gangs, bandits, and violence associated with historical and ongoing farmer-herder conflicts, as well as BH and ISWA terrorists; bandits in the northwest were estimated to number in the low 10,000s and violence there has killed more than 10,000 since the mid-2010s; the military also continued to protect the oil industry in the Niger Delta region against militants and criminal activity, although the levels of violence there have decreased in recent years; beginning in May 2021, a contingent of military troops and police were deployed to eastern Nigeria to quell renewed agitation for a state of Biafra (Biafra seceded from Nigeria in the late 1960s, sparking a civil war that caused more than 1 million deaths)<br> <p>as of 2022, the Navy was focused on security in the Gulf of Guinea; since 2016, it has developed a maritime strategy, boosted naval training and its naval presence in the Gulf, increased participation in regional maritime security efforts, and acquired a significant number of new naval platforms, including offshore and coastal patrol craft, fast attack boats, and air assets</p> <p>the Nigerian military traces its origins to the Nigeria Regiment of the West African Frontier Force (WAFF), a multi-regiment force formed by the British colonial office in 1900 to garrison the West African colonies of Nigeria (Lagos and the protectorates of Northern and Southern Nigeria), Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, and Gambia; the WAFF served with distinction in both East and West Africa during World War I; in 1928, it received royal recognition and was re-named the Royal West African Frontier Force (RWAFF); the RWAFF went on to serve in World War II as part of the British 81st and 82nd (West African) divisions in the East Africa and Burma campaigns; in 1956, the Nigeria Regiment of the RWAFF was renamed the Nigerian Military Forces (NMF) and in 1958, the colonial government of Nigeria took over control of the NMF from the British War Office; the Nigerian Armed Forces were established following independence in 1960</p>"
"text": "as of 2022, the Nigerian military was sub-Saharan Africa’s largest and regarded as one of its most capable forces; it was focused largely on internal security and faced a number of challenges that have stretched its resources, however; the Army was deployed in all 36 of the country's states; in the northeast, it was conducting counterinsurgency/counter-terrorist operations against the Boko Haram (BH) and Islamic State in West Africa (ISWA) terrorist groups, where it has deployed as many as 70,000 troops at times and jihadist-related violence has killed an estimated 35-40,000 people, mostly civilians, since 2009 (as of 2022); in the northwest, it faced growing threats from criminal gangs, bandits, and violence associated with historical and ongoing farmer-herder conflicts, as well as BH and ISWA terrorists; bandits in the northwest were estimated to number in the low 10,000s and violence there has killed more than 10,000 since the mid-2010s; the military also continued to protect the oil industry in the Niger Delta region against militants and criminal activity, although the levels of violence there have decreased in recent years; beginning in May 2021, a contingent of military troops and police were deployed to eastern Nigeria to quell renewed agitation for a state of Biafra (Biafra seceded from Nigeria in the late 1960s, sparking a civil war that caused more than 1 million deaths)<br><br>as of 2022, the Navy was focused on security in the Gulf of Guinea; since 2016, it has developed a maritime strategy, boosted naval training and its naval presence in the Gulf, increased participation in regional maritime security efforts, and acquired a significant number of new naval platforms, including offshore and coastal patrol craft, fast attack boats, and air assets <p>the Nigerian military traces its origins to the Nigeria Regiment of the West African Frontier Force (WAFF), a multi-regiment force formed by the British colonial office in 1900 to garrison the West African colonies of Nigeria (Lagos and the protectorates of Northern and Southern Nigeria), Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, and Gambia; the WAFF served with distinction in both East and West Africa during World War I; in 1928, it received royal recognition and was re-named the Royal West African Frontier Force (RWAFF); the RWAFF went on to serve in World War II as part of the British 81st and 82nd (West African) divisions in the East Africa and Burma campaigns; in 1956, the Nigeria Regiment of the RWAFF was renamed the Nigerian Military Forces (NMF) and in 1958, the colonial government of Nigeria took over control of the NMF from the British War Office; the Nigerian Armed Forces were established following independence in 1960</p>"
},
"Maritime threats": {
"text": "<p>the International Maritime Bureau reports the territorial and offshore waters in the Niger Delta and Gulf of Guinea remain a very high risk for piracy and armed robbery of ships; in 2021, there were 34 reported incidents of piracy and armed robbery at sea in the Gulf of Guinea region; although a significant decrease from the total number of 81 incidents in 2020, it included the one hijacking and three of five ships fired upon worldwide; while boarding and attempted boarding to steal valuables from ships and crews are the most common types of incidents, almost a third of all incidents involve a hijacking and/or kidnapping; in 2021, 57 crew members were kidnapped in seven separate incidents in the Gulf of Guinea, representing 100% of kidnappings worldwide; Nigerian pirates in particular are well armed and very aggressive, operating as far as 200 nm offshore; the Maritime Administration of the US Department of Transportation has issued a Maritime Advisory (2022-001 - Gulf of Guinea-Piracy/Armed Robbery/Kidnapping for Ransom) effective 4 January 2022, which states in part, \"Piracy, armed robbery, and kidnapping for ransom continue to serve as significant threats to US-flagged vessels transiting or operating in the Gulf of Guinea\"</p>"

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "9.5% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "9% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "17% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "0.9% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "18.8% (2019)"
},

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "5.8% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "13.7% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "20.1% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "7.2% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "7.7% (2019/20)"
},
@ -1156,7 +1167,7 @@
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
"text": "77,288 (Democratic Republic of the Congo) 48,070 (Burundi) (2022)"
"text": "77,288 (Democratic Republic of the Congo) 48,123 (Burundi) (2022)"
},
"stateless persons": {
"text": "9,500 (mid-year 2021)"

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "14% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "20.2% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "34% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "6.4% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "3.6% (2012)"
},

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "28.3% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "20.3% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "34% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "6.5% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "5.5% (2017)"
},
@ -1225,7 +1236,7 @@
"note": "note - in 2021, South Africa sent a contingent of about 1,500 troops to Mozambique as part of a Southern African Development Community (SADC) force to help quell an insurgency; in"
},
"Military - note": {
"text": "<p>the SANDF was created in 1994 to replace the South African Defense Force (SADF); the SANDF was opened to all South Africans who met military requirements, while the SADF was a mostly white force (only whites were subject to conscription) with non-whites only allowed to join in a voluntary capacity; the SANDF also absorbed members of the guerrilla and militia forces of the various anti-apartheid opposition groups, including the African National Congress, the Pan Africanist Congress, and the Inkatha Freedom Party, as well as the security forces of the formerly independent Bantustan homelands</p> <p>as of 2022, the SANDF was one of Africa’s most capable militaries; it participated regularly in African and UN peacekeeping missions and had the ability to independently deploy throughout Africa; over the past decade, however, its operational readiness and modernization programs have been hampered by funding shortfalls</p>"
"text": "the SANDF was created in 1994 to replace the South African Defense Force (SADF); the SANDF was opened to all South Africans who met military requirements, while the SADF was a mostly white force (only whites were subject to conscription) with non-whites only allowed to join in a voluntary capacity; the SANDF also absorbed members of the guerrilla and militia forces of the various anti-apartheid opposition groups, including the African National Congress, the Pan Africanist Congress, and the Inkatha Freedom Party, as well as the security forces of the formerly independent Bantustan homelands; the SANDF is one of Africa&rsquo;s most capable militaries; it participated regularly in African and UN peacekeeping missions and had the ability to independently deploy throughout Africa; over the past decade, however, its operational readiness and modernization programs have been hampered by funding shortfalls (2022)"
}
},
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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "8.8% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "6.9% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "13.1% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "0.7% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "14.4% (2019)"
},
@ -1206,7 +1217,7 @@
"text": "750 Gambia (ECOMIG); 970 Mali (MINUSMA); note - Senegal also has about 1,100 police deployed on various UN peacekeeping missions (2022)"
},
"Military - note": {
"text": "<p>as of 2022, Senegalese security forces continued to be engaged in a low-level counterinsurgency campaign in the southern Casamance region against various factions of the separatist Movement of Democratic Forces of the Casamance; while violent incidents have decreased since a tacit cease-fire was reached in 2012, the insurgency, which began in 1982, continues and remains one of longest running low-level conflicts in the world, claiming more than 5,000 lives and leaving another 60,000 displaced</p>"
"text": "Senegalese security forces continued to be engaged in a low-level counterinsurgency campaign in the southern Casamance region against various factions of the separatist Movement of Democratic Forces of the Casamance; while violent incidents have decreased since a tacit cease-fire was reached in 2012, the insurgency, which began in 1982, continues and remains one of longest running low-level conflicts in the world, claiming more than 5,000 lives and leaving another 60,000 displaced (2022)"
}
},
"Terrorism": {

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "8.7% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "13.5% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "20.5% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "6.4% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "13.5% (2019)"
},

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},
"Executive branch": {
"chief of state": {
"text": "President Mohamed ABDULLAHI Mohamed \"Farmaajo\" (since 8 February 2017)"
"text": "President HASSAN SHEIKH Mohamud (since 23 May 2022)"
},
"head of government": {
"text": "Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein ROBLE (since 27 September 2020)"
@ -544,10 +544,10 @@
"text": "Cabinet appointed by the prime minister, approved by the House of the People"
},
"elections/appointments": {
"text": "president indirectly elected by the Federal Parliament by two-thirds majority vote in 2 rounds if needed for a single 4-year term; election last held on 8 February 2017; prime minister appointed by the president, approved by the House of the People; note - elections were scheduled for 10 October 2021 but did not take place; clan elders are scheduled to pick members of a lower house of parliament in November 2021; the parliament will then select a new president at an undetermined future date"
"text": "president indirectly elected by the Federal Parliament by two-thirds majority vote in 2 rounds if needed for a single 4-year term; election last held on 15 May 2022; prime minister appointed by the president, approved by the House of the People; note - elections were originally scheduled for 10 October 2021 but did not take place; on 13 April 2022, the election of the House of the People representatives was completed and the presidential election date was set for 15 May"
},
"election results": {
"text": "Mohamed ABDULLAHI Mohamed \"Farmaajo\" elected president in second round; Federal Parliament second round vote - Mohamed ABDULLAHI Mohamed \"Farmaajo\" (TPP) 184, HASSAN SHEIKH Mohamud (PDP) 97, Sheikh SHARIF Sheikh Ahmed (ARS) 46"
"text": "<br><em>2022:</em> an indirect election by Somalia's Federal Parliament was held on 15 May 2022 resulting in the defeat of former president Mohamed ABDULLAHI Mohamed \"Farmaajo\"; HASSAN SHEIKH Mohamud elected president in third round - Federal Parliament third round vote - HASSAN SHEIKH Mohamud (PDP) 214, Mohamed ABDULLAHI Mohamed \"Farmaajo\" (TPP) 110<br><br><em>2017:</em> Mohamed ABDULLAHI Mohamed \"Farmaajo\" elected president in second round; Federal Parliament second round vote - Mohamed ABDULLAHI Mohamed \"Farmaajo\" (TPP) 184, HASSAN SHEIKH Mohamud (PDP) 97, Sheikh SHARIF Sheikh Ahmed (ARS) 46"
}
},
"Legislative branch": {
@ -574,7 +574,7 @@
}
},
"Political parties and leaders": {
"text": "Cosmopolitan Democratic Party [Yarow Sharef ADEN]<br>Daljir Party or DP [Hassan MOALIM]<br>Democratic Green Party of Somalia or DGPS [Abdullahi Y. MAHAMOUD]<br>Democratic Party of Somalia or DPS [Maslah Mohamed SIAD]<br>Green Leaf for Democracy or GLED<br>Hiil Qaran<br>Justice and Communist Party [Mohamed NUR]<br>Justice and Development of Democracy and Self-Respectfulness Party or CAHDI [Abdirahman Abdigani IBRAHIM Bile]<br>Justice Party [SAKARIYE Haji]<br>Liberal Party of Somalia<br>National Democratic Party [Abdirashid ALI]<br>National Unity Party (Xisbiga MIdnimo-Quaran) [Abdurahman BAADIYOW]<br>Peace and Development Party or PDP<br>Somali Green Party (local chapter of Federation of Green Parties of Africa)<br>Somali National Party or SNP [Mohammed Ameen Saeed AHMED]<br>Somali People's Party [Salad JEELE]<br>Somali Society Unity Party [Yasin MAALIM]<br>Tayo or TPP [Mohamed Abdullahi MOHAMED]<br>Tiir Party [Fadhil Sheik MOHAMUD]<br>Union for Peace and Development or UPD [HASSAN SHEIKH Mohamud]<br>United and Democratic Party [FAUZIA Haji]<br>United Somali Parliamentarians<br>United Somali Republican Party [Ali TIMA-JLIC]<br><strong>inactive:</strong> Alliance for the Reliberation of Somalia; reportedly inactive since 2009"
"text": "Cosmopolitan Democratic Party [Yarow Sharef ADEN]<br>Daljir Party or DP [Hassan MOALIM]<br>Democratic Green Party of Somalia or DGPS [Abdullahi Y. MAHAMOUD]<br>Democratic Party of Somalia or DPS [Maslah Mohamed SIAD]<br>Green Leaf for Democracy or GLED<br>Hiil Qaran<br>Justice and Communist Party [Mohamed NUR]<br>Justice and Development of Democracy and Self-Respectfulness Party or CAHDI [Abdirahman Abdigani IBRAHIM Bile]<br>Justice Party [SAKARIYE Haji]<br>Liberal Party of Somalia<br>National Democratic Party [Abdirashid ALI]<br>National Unity Party (Xisbiga MIdnimo-Quaran) [Abdurahman BAADIYOW]<br>Somali Green Party (local chapter of Federation of Green Parties of Africa)<br>Somali National Party or SNP [Mohammed Ameen Saeed AHMED]<br>Somali People's Party [Salad JEELE]<br>Somali Society Unity Party [Yasin MAALIM]<br>Tayo or TPP [Mohamed Abdullahi MOHAMED]<br>Tiir Party [Fadhil Sheik MOHAMUD]<br>Union for Peace and Development Party or PDP [HASSAN SHEIKH Mohamud]<br>United and Democratic Party [FAUZIA Haji]<br>United Somali Parliamentarians<br>United Somali Republican Party [Ali TIMA-JLIC]<br><strong>inactive:</strong> Alliance for the Reliberation of Somalia; reportedly inactive since 2009"
},
"International organization participation": {
"text": "ACP, AfDB, AFESD, AMF, AU, CAEU (candidate), FAO, G-77, IBRD, ICAO, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IGAD, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ITSO, ITU, LAS, NAM, OIC, OPCW, OPCW (signatory), UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UPU, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO"

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},
"Constitution": {
"history": {
"text": "history: previous 1973, 1998; 2005 (interim constitution, which was suspended in April 2019); latest initial draft completed by Transitional Military Council in May 2019; revised draft known as the \"Draft Constitutional Charter for the 2019 Transitional Period,\" or &ldquo;2019 Constitutional Declaration&rdquo; was signed by the Council and opposition coalition on 4 August 2019 amendments: amended 2020 to incorporate the Juba Agreement for Peace in Sudan; the military suspended several provisions of the Constitutional Declaration in October 2021"
"text": "history: previous 1973, 1998; 2005 (interim constitution, which was suspended in April 2019); latest initial draft completed by Transitional Military Council in May 2019; revised draft known as the \"Draft Constitutional Charter for the 2019 Transitional Period,\" or “2019 Constitutional Declaration” was signed by the Council and opposition coalition on 4 August 2019 <br>amendments: amended 2020 to incorporate the Juba Agreement for Peace in Sudan; the military suspended several provisions of the Constitutional Declaration in October 2021"
},
"amendments": {
"text": "amended 2020 to incorporate the Juba Agreement for Peace in Sudan"
@ -587,16 +587,16 @@
},
"Executive branch": {
"chief of state": {
"text": "Sovereign Council Chair and Commander-in-Chief of the Sudanese Armed Forces General Abd-al-Fatah al-BURHAN Abd-al-Rahman (de facto); note &ndash; the 2019 Constitutional Declaration established a collective chief of state the \"Sovereign Council,\" which was chaired by al-BURHAN; on 25 October 2021, al-BURHAN dissolved the Sovereign Council but subsequently reinstated it on 11 November 2021 replacing its civilian members (previously selected by the umbrella civilian coalition the Forces for Freedom and Change) with civilians of the military&rsquo;s choosing; the Sovereign Council currently consists of five military appointed civilians, five generals, and three representatives selected by former armed opposition groups"
"text": "Sovereign Council Chair and Commander-in-Chief of the Sudanese Armed Forces General Abd-al-Fatah al-BURHAN Abd-al-Rahman (de facto); note &ndash; the 2019 Constitutional Declaration established a collective chief of state the \"Sovereign Council,\" which was chaired by al-BURHAN; on 25 October 2021, al-BURHAN dissolved the Sovereign Council but subsequently reinstated it on 11 November 2021 replacing its civilian members (previously selected by the umbrella civilian coalition the Forces for Freedom and Change) with civilians of the military&rsquo;s choosing; the Sovereign Council currently consists of 5 military appointed civilians, 5 generals, and 3 representatives selected by former armed opposition groups"
},
"head of government": {
"text": "Sovereign Council Chair and Commander-in-Chief of the Sudanese Armed Forces General Abd-al-Fatah al-BURHAN Abd-al-Rahman (de facto); note &ndash; the 2019 Constitutional Declaration calls for the appointment of a civilian Prime Minister; Prime Minister Abdallah HAMDOUK (since August 2019, ousted by military in October 2021 and then reinstated November 2021) resigned on 2 January 2022; he has not been replaced and Gen. BURHAN has effectively assumed his role"
"text": "Sovereign Council Chair and Commander-in-Chief of the Sudanese Armed Forces General Abd-al-Fatah al-BURHAN Abd-al-Rahman (de facto); Acting Prime Minister Osman HUSSEIN (since 19 January 2022); note - former Prime Minister Abdallah HAMDOUK resigned on 2 January 2022"
},
"cabinet": {
"text": "most members of the Council of Ministers were forced from office in October 2021 by the military and subsequently resigned in November 2021; the military allowed a handful of ministers appointed by former armed opposition groups to retain their posts; at present, most of the members of the Council are senior civil servants serving in an acting minister capacity appointed either by Prime Minister HAMDOUK prior to his resignation or by the military"
},
"elections/appointments": {
"text": "the 2019 Constitutional Declaration originally called for elections to be held in late 2022 at the end of the transitional period; that date was pushed back to late 2023 by the Juba Peace Agreement; the methodology for future elections has not yet been defined; according to the 2019 Constitutional Declaration, civilian members of the Sovereign Council and the Prime Minister were to have been nominated by an umbrella coalition of civilian actors known as the Forces for Freedom and Change; this methodology was followed in selecting HAMDOUK as Prime Minister in August 2019; the military purports to have suspended this provision of the 2019 Constitutional Declaration in October 2021; Prime Minister HAMDOUK&rsquo;s restoration to office in November 2021 was the result of an agreement signed between him and Sovereign Council Chair BURHAN; military members of the Sovereign Council are selected by the leadership of the security forces;&nbsp; representatives of former armed groups to the Sovereign Council are selected by the signatories of the Juba Peace Agreement"
"text": "the 2019 Constitutional Declaration originally called for elections to be held in late 2022 at the end of the transitional period; that date was pushed back to late 2023 by the Juba Peace Agreement; the methodology for future elections has not yet been defined; according to the 2019 Constitutional Declaration, civilian members of the Sovereign Council and the prime minister were to have been nominated by an umbrella coalition of civilian actors known as the Forces for Freedom and Change; this methodology was followed in selecting HAMDOUK as prime minister in August 2019; the military purports to have suspended this provision of the 2019 Constitutional Declaration in October 2021; Prime Minister HAMDOUK&rsquo;s restoration to office in November 2021 was the result of an agreement signed between him and Sovereign Council Chair BURHAN; military members of the Sovereign Council are selected by the leadership of the security forces;&nbsp; representatives of former armed groups to the Sovereign Council are selected by the signatories of the Juba Peace Agreement"
},
"election results": {
"text": "NA"
@ -607,7 +607,7 @@
"text": "according to the August 2019 Constitutional Declaration, which established Sudan's transitional government, the Transitional Legislative Council (TLC) was to have served as the national legislature during the transitional period until elections could be held; as of March 2022, the TLC had not been established"
},
"elections": {
"text": "Council of State - last held 1 June 2015; subsequently dissolved in April 2019<br>National Assembly - last held on 13-15 April 2015; subsequently dissolved in April 2019 <br>note – according to the 2019 Constitutional Declaration, elections for a new legislature are to be held at an undetermined date in late 2023"
"text": "Council of State - last held 1 June 2015; subsequently dissolved in April 2019<br>National Assembly - last held on 13-15 April 2015; subsequently dissolved in April 2019 <br>note – according to the 2019 Constitutional Declaration, elections for a new legislature are to be held in late 2023"
},
"election results": {
"text": "Council of State - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - NA; former composition - men 35, women 19, percent of women 35.2%<br>National Assembly - percent of vote by party - NA; former seats by party - NCP 323, DUP 25, Democratic Unionist Party 15, other 44, independent 19; former composition - men 296 women 130, percent of women 30.5%; note - former<br>total National Legislature percent of women 31%"
@ -618,14 +618,14 @@
"text": "National Supreme Court (consists of 70 judges organized into panels of 3 judges and includes 4 circuits that operate outside the capital); Constitutional Court (consists of 9 justices including the court president); note - the Constitutional Court resides outside the national judiciary and has not been appointed since the signature of the 2019 Constitutional Declaration"
},
"judge selection and term of office": {
"text": "National Supreme Court and Constitutional Court judges selected by the Supreme Judicial Council, which replaced the National Judicial Service Commission upon enactment of the 2019 Constitutional Declaration d subordinate courts: Court of Appeal; other national courts; public courts; district, town, and rural courts"
"text": "National Supreme Court and Constitutional Court judges selected by the Supreme Judicial Council, which replaced the National Judicial Service Commission upon enactment of the 2019 Constitutional Declaration"
},
"subordinate courts": {
"text": "Court of Appeal; other national courts; public courts; district, town, and rural courts"
}
},
"Political parties and leaders": {
"text": "Democratic Unionist Party [Muhammad Uthman al-MIRGHANI]<br>Democratic Unionist Party or DUP [Babika BABIKER]<br>Federal Umma Party [Dr. Ahmed Babikir NAHAR]<br>Muslim Brotherhood or MB [Sadig Abdalla ABDELMAJID and Dr. Yousif Al-Hibir Nor-ELDAYIM<br>National Congress Party or NCP (in November 2019, Sudan's transitional government approved a law to \"dismantle\" the regime of former President Omar al-Bashir, including the dissolution of his political party, the NCP) <br>National Umma Party or NUP [Fadlallah Baramah NASSER]<br>Popular Congress Party or PCP [Nawal Al-KHIDIR]<br>Reform Movement Now [Dr. Ghazi Salahuddin al-ATABANI]Sudan National Front [Ali Mahmud HASANAYN]<br>Sudanese Communist Party or SCP [Mohammed Moktar Al-KHATEEB]<br>Sudanese Congress Party or SCoP [Omar El DIGAIR]<br>Umma Party for Reform and Development [Mubarak Al-Fadul Al-MAHDI]<br>Unionist Movement Party or UMP [led by DUP Chair Mohammed Osama Al-MERGHANI]"
"text": "Democratic Unionist Party [Muhammad Uthman al-MIRGHANI]<br>Democratic Unionist Party or DUP [Babika BABIKER]<br>Federal Umma Party [Dr. Ahmed Babikir NAHAR]<br>Muslim Brotherhood or MB [Sadig Abdalla ABDELMAJID and Dr. Yousif Al-Hibir Nor-ELDAYIM]<br>National Congress Party or NCP (in November 2019, Sudan's transitional government approved a law to \"dismantle\" the regime of former President Omar al-Bashir, including the dissolution of his political party, the NCP) <br>National Umma Party or NUP [Fadlallah Baramah NASSER]<br>Popular Congress Party or PCP [Nawal Al-KHIDIR]<br>Reform Movement Now [Dr. Ghazi Salahuddin al-ATABANI]<br>Sudan National Front [Ali Mahmud HASANAYN]<br>Sudanese Communist Party or SCP [Mohammed Moktar Al-KHATEEB]<br>Sudanese Congress Party or SCoP [Omar El DIGAIR]<br>Umma Party for Reform and Development [Mubarak Al-Fadul Al-MAHDI]<br>Unionist Movement Party or UMP [led by DUP Chair Mohammed Osama Al-MERGHANI]"
},
"International organization participation": {
"text": "ABEDA, ACP, AfDB, AFESD, AMF, AU, CAEU, COMESA, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (NGOs), ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IGAD, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, LAS, MIGA, NAM, OIC, OPCW, PCA, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO (observer)"
@ -1210,7 +1210,7 @@
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
"text": "803,634 (South Sudan) (refugees and asylum seekers), 128,996 (Eritrea) (refugees and asylum seekers), 93,482 (Syria) (refugees and asylum seekers), 73,335 (Ethiopia) (refugees and asylum seekers), 28,028 (Central African Republic) (2022)"
"text": "805,989 (South Sudan) (refugees and asylum seekers), 128,996 (Eritrea) (refugees and asylum seekers), 93,482 (Syria) (refugees and asylum seekers), 73,335 (Ethiopia) (refugees and asylum seekers), 28,033 (Central African Republic) (2022)"
},
"IDPs": {
"text": "2,276,000 (civil war 1983-2005; ongoing conflict in Darfur region; government and rebel fighting along South Sudan border; inter-tribal clashes) (2020)"

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "8.4% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "6.8% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "12.3% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "1.2% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "15.2% (2017)"
},

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "12.4% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "5.7% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "10.1% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "1.3% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "5.4% (2019)"
},

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "26.9% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "24.6% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "47.2% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "2% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "1.6% (2018)"
},

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "8.4% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "8.7% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "14% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "3.4% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "14.6% (2018)"
},
@ -610,7 +621,7 @@
"text": "President Samia Suluhu HASSAN (since 19 March 2021); note - President John MAGUFULI died on 17 March 2021; vice president Philip MPANGO; note - the president is both chief of state and head of government"
},
"head of government": {
"text": "President Samia Suluhu HASSAN (since 19 March 2021); note - President John MAGUFULI died on 17 March 2021; vice president (vacant); Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa MAJALIWA (since 20 November 2015) has authority over the day-to-day functions of the government, is the leader of government business in the National Assembly, and is head of the Cabinet"
"text": "President Samia Suluhu HASSAN (since 19 March 2021); note - President John MAGUFULI died on 17 March 2021; vice president (vacant); Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa MAJALIWA (since 20 November 2015) has authority over the day-to-day functions of the government, is the leader of government business in the National Assembly, and head of the Cabinet"
},
"cabinet": {
"text": "Cabinet appointed by the president from among members of the National Assembly"

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "5.3% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "8.4% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "13% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "3.7% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "10.4% (2016)"
},
@ -585,10 +596,10 @@
},
"Executive branch": {
"chief of state": {
"text": "President Yoweri Kaguta MUSEVENI (since coming to power on 26 January 1986; re-elected for sixth term on 14 January 2021); Vice President Jessica Rose Epel ALUPO (since 21 June 2021); Prime Minister Robinah NABBANJA (since 21 June 2021); First Deputy Prime Minister Rebecca KADAGA (since 24 June 2021); Second Deputy Prime Minister Moses ALI (since 21 June 2021); note - the president is both chief of state and head of government"
"text": "President Yoweri Kaguta MUSEVENI (since 26 January 1986; re-elected for sixth term on 14 January 2021); Vice President Jessica Rose Epel ALUPO (since 21 June 2021); Prime Minister Robinah NABBANJA (since 21 June 2021); First Deputy Prime Minister Rebecca KADAGA (since 24 June 2021); Second Deputy Prime Minister Moses ALI (since 21 June 2021); note - the president is both chief of state and head of government"
},
"head of government": {
"text": "President Yoweri Kaguta MUSEVENI (since coming to power on 26 January 1986; re-elected for sixth term on 14 January 2021); Vice President Jessica Rose Epel ALUPO (since 21 June 2021); Prime Minister Robinah NABBANJA (since 21 June 2021); First Deputy Prime Minister Rebecca KADAGA (since 24 June 2021); Second Deputy Prime Minister Moses ALI (since 21 June 2021)"
"text": "President Yoweri Kaguta MUSEVENI (since 26 January 1986; re-elected for sixth term on 14 January 2021); Vice President Jessica Rose Epel ALUPO (since 21 June 2021); Prime Minister Robinah NABBANJA (since 21 June 2021); First Deputy Prime Minister Rebecca KADAGA (since 24 June 2021); Second Deputy Prime Minister Moses ALI (since 21 June 2021)"
},
"cabinet": {
"text": "Cabinet appointed by the president from among elected members of the National Assembly or persons who qualify to be elected as members of the National Assembly"
@ -1193,7 +1204,7 @@
"text": "18-25 years of age for voluntary military duty (men and women); 9-year service obligation (2021)"
},
"Military deployments": {
"text": "6,800 Somalia (6,200 AMISOM; 620 UNSOM); 250 Equatorial Guinea (training mission) (2022)"
"text": "6,800 Somalia (6,000 ATMIS; 620 UNSOM); 250 Equatorial Guinea (training mission) (2022)"
},
"Military - note": {
"text": "<p>the UPDF, which is constitutionally granted seats in parliament, is widely viewed as a key constituency for MUSEVENI; it has been used by MUSEVENI and the NRM to break up rallies, raid opposition offices, and surveil rival candidates<br><br>as of 2022, the UPDF was conducting operations along the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (including cross-border operations) against a Congo-based (and formerly based in western Uganda) Ugandan rebel group, the Allied Democratic Front (ADF), which was designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the US State Department in March 2021 as the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (ISIS-DRC; see Appendix T); in addition, elements of the UPDF were deployed in the northeast region of Karamoja against cattle rustlers and criminal gangs</p> <p>beginning in 2012, the UPDF led regional efforts to pursue the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a small, violent group of Ugandan origin that conducted widespread attacks against civilians in much of Central Africa; the UPDF withdrew from the mission in 2017 after declaring that the LRA no longer posed a security threat</p> <p>Uganda intervened in the South Sudan civil war in 2013-2016 and UPDF forces have clashed with South Sudanese forces along the border as recently as 2020<br><br>the military traces its history back to the formation of the Uganda Rifles in 1895; the Uganda Rifles were merged with the Central Africa Regiment and the East Africa Rifles to form the King’s African Rifles (“KAR”) in 1902, which participated in both world wars; the UPDF was established in 1995</p>"

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "5.6% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "14.3% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "22.1% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "6.4% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "16.4% (2019)"
},
@ -1169,7 +1180,7 @@
"note": "note - Burkina Faso is part of a five-nation anti-jihadist task force known as the G5 Sahel Group, set up in 2014 with Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger; it has committed 550 troops and 100 gendarmes to the force; the G5 force is backed by the UN, US, and France; G5 troops periodically conduct joint operations with French forces deployed to the Sahel under Operation Barkhane; in early 2020, G5 Sahel military chiefs of staff agreed to allow defense forces from each of the states to pursue terrorist fighters up to 100 km into neighboring countries"
},
"Military - note": {
"text": "including the most recent in January 2022, the military has conducted 7 coups since 1960; as of 2022, the military was also actively engaged in combat operations with terrorist groups linked to al-Qa'ida and ISIS, particularly in the northern and eastern regions; in the north, the designated terrorist groups Ansarul Islam and Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) have exploited ethnic tensions and perceptions of state neglect, as well as grievances over corruption, patronage politics, social stratification, and land disputes; the east is reportedly a stronghold of the Islamic State-Greater Sahara (ISGS) (2022)"
"text": "including the most recent in January 2022, the military has conducted 7 coups since 1960; as of 2022, the military was also actively engaged in combat operations with terrorist groups linked to al-Qa'ida and ISIS, particularly in the northern and eastern regions; in the north, the terrorist groups Ansarul Islam and Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) have exploited ethnic tensions and perceptions of state neglect, as well as grievances over corruption, patronage politics, social stratification, and land disputes; the east is reportedly a stronghold of the Islamic State-Greater Sahara (ISGS) (2022)"
}
},
"Terrorism": {

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "17.2% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "15.1% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "24.2% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "6% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "13.2% (2013)"
},

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "16.5% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "9.2% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "16.5% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "1.8% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "5.8% (2014)"
},
@ -589,7 +600,7 @@
},
"Diplomatic representation in the US": {
"chief of mission": {
"text": "Ambassador Njabuliso Busisiwe Sikhulile GWEBU (since 24 April 2017)"
"text": "Ambassador (vacant); Charge d&rsquo;Affaires Mcusi SHONGWE, Counselor (24 November 2021)"
},
"chancery": {
"text": "1712 New Hampshire Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20009"

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "8.1% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "14.4% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "25.1% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "3.7% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "11.8% (2018/19)"
},

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "15.5% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "11.7% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "21.8% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "1.5% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "9.7% (2019)"
},

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"text": "the coldest, windiest, and driest continent on Earth; severe low temperatures vary with latitude, elevation, and distance from the ocean; East Antarctica is colder than West Antarctica because of its higher elevation; Antarctic Peninsula has the most moderate climate; higher temperatures occur in January along the coast and average slightly below freezing; summers characterized by continuous daylight, while winters bring continuous darkness; persistent high pressure over the interior brings dry, subsiding air that results in very little cloud cover"
},
"Terrain": {
"text": "about 98% thick continental ice sheet and 2% barren rock, with average elevations between 2,000 and 4,000 m; mountain ranges up to nearly 5,000 m; ice-free coastal areas include parts of southern Victoria Land, Wilkes Land, the Antarctic Peninsula area, and parts of Ross Island on McMurdo Sound; glaciers form ice shelves along about half of the coastline, and floating ice shelves constitute 11% of the area of the continent"
"text": "about 99% thick continental ice sheet and 1% barren rock, with average elevations between 2,000 and 4,000 m; mountain ranges up to nearly 5,000 m; ice-free coastal areas include parts of southern Victoria Land, Wilkes Land, the Antarctic Peninsula area, and parts of Ross Island on McMurdo Sound; glaciers form ice shelves along about half of the coastline, and floating ice shelves constitute 11% of the area of the continent"
},
"Elevation": {
"highest point": {

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "29% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "13.6% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "15.6% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "11.5% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "NA"
},
@ -1188,9 +1199,6 @@
"text": "17 years of age for voluntary military service (with parental consent); no conscription (abolished 1973); women allowed to serve in all roles, including combat arms since 2013 (2022)",
"note": "note - in 2020-2021, women comprised nearly 20% of the ADF"
},
"Military deployments": {
"text": "approximately 700 Middle East (2021)"
},
"Military - note": {
"text": "<p>Australia has been part of the Australia, New Zealand, and US Security (ANZUS) Treaty since 1951<br><br>Australia has a long-standing military relationship with the US; Australian and US forces first fought together in France in 1918 at the Battle of Hamel, and have fought together in every major US conflict since; Australia and the US signed an agreement in 2014 that allowed for closer bi-lateral defense and security cooperation, including annual rotations of US Marines and enhanced rotations of US Air Force aircraft to Australia; Australian military forces train often with US forces; Australia has Major Non-NATO Ally (MNNA) status with the US, a designation under US law that provides foreign partners with certain benefits in the areas of defense trade and security cooperation</p> <p>Australia also has long-standing defense and security ties to the UK, including a Defense and Security Cooperation Treaty signed in 2013; in 2020, Australia and the UK signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate on the building of a next generation of frigates for their respective navies; the Australia-UK Ministerial Consultations (AUKMIN) is their premier bilateral forum on foreign policy, defense, and security issues</p> <p>in 2021, Australia, the UK, and the US announced an enhanced trilateral security partnership called “AUKUS” which would build on existing bilateral ties, including deeper integration of defense and security-related science, technology, industrial bases, and supply chains, as well as deeper cooperation on a range of defense and security capabilities; the first initiative under AUKUS was a commitment to support Australia in acquiring conventionally armed nuclear-powered submarines for the Royal Australian Navy</p> <p>since the 1990s, Australia has deployed more than 30,000 personnel on nearly 100 UN peacekeeping and coalition military operations, including in Cambodia, Rwanda, the Solomon Islands, Somalia, and East Timor</p> (2022)"
}

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "22.5% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "36.5% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "53.8% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "19.2% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "16.2% (2015)"
},

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "55.9% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "24% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "27.7% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "20.3% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "NA"
},

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "30.2% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "23.1% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "35.6% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "10.5% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "NA"
},

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "46% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "40.6% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "53.9% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "27.3% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "6.9% (2018/19)"
},

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "25.2% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "17.8% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "33% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "2.6% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "11.7% (2013)"
},

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "61% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "48.5% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "47.8% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "49.1% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "NA"
},

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "30.8% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "13.7% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "15% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "12.3% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "NA"
},

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "55.3% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "17.6% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "27.3% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "7.9% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "NA"
},

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "52.9% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "28.5% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "48.7% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "8.3% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "11.9% (2017)"
},

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "48.2% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "31% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "46.7% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "15.3% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "0.8% (2019)"
},

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "51.6% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "35.6% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "49.8% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "21.3% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "NA"
},

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "47.3% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "25.3% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "36.1% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "14.5% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "3.4% (2019/20)"
},

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "23.1% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "8.5% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "15% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "1.9% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "3.5% (2012)"
},

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "31.6% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "10.6% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "18.8% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "2.4% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "NA"
},

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "24.1% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "8.5% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "15.1% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "1.8% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "4.6% (2015/16)"
},

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "25.7% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "8.8% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "12.9% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "4.6% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "2.9% (2018)"
},

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "24.6% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "17.9% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "25.5% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "10.3% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "2.4% (2019)"
},

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "27.6% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "10.6% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "14.6% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "6.5% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "4% (2013)"
},

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "24.6% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "7.9% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "14.1% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "1.7% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "5% (2014)"
},
@ -586,7 +597,7 @@
}
},
"Political parties and leaders": {
"text": "Christian Democratic Party or PDC [Rodolfo Antonio PARKER Soto]<br>Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front or FMLN [Oscar ORTIZ]<br>Great Alliance for National Unity or GANA [Nelson GUARDADO]<br>National Coalition Party or PCN [Manuel RODRIGUEZ]<br>Nationalist Republican Alliance or ARENA [Erick SALGUERO]<br>New Ideas (Nuevas Ideas) or NI [Xavier Zablah BUKELE]<br>Our Time (Nuestro Tiempo) or NT [Juan VALIENTE]<br>Vamos or V [Josue ALVARADO Flores]"
"text": "Christian Democratic Party or PDC [Reynaldo CARBALLO]<br>Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front or FMLN [Oscar ORTIZ]<br>Great Alliance for National Unity or GANA [Nelson GUARDADO]<br>National Coalition Party or PCN [Manuel RODRIGUEZ]<br>Nationalist Republican Alliance or ARENA [Erick SALGUERO]<br>New Ideas (Nuevas Ideas) or NI [Xavier Zablah BUKELE]<br>Our Time (Nuestro Tiempo) or NT [Juan VALIENTE]<br>Vamos or V [Josue ALVARADO Flores]"
},
"International organization participation": {
"text": "BCIE, CACM, CD, CELAC, FAO, G-11, G-77, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), LAES, LAIA (observer), MIGA, MINURSO, MINUSTAH, NAM (observer), OAS, OPANAL, OPCW, Pacific Alliance (observer), PCA, Petrocaribe, SICA, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNIFIL, Union Latina, UNISFA, UNMISS, UNOCI, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO"
@ -608,10 +619,7 @@
"text": "<br>correo@elsalvador.org"
},
"consulate(s) general": {
"text": "Atlanta, Boston, Brentwood (NY), Chicago, Dallas, Doral (FL), Doraville (GA), Houston, Las Vegas (NV), Los Angeles, McAllen (TX), New York, Nogales (AZ), San Francisco, Silver Spring (MD), Tucson (AZ), Washington, DC, Woodbridge (VA)"
},
"consulate(s)": {
"text": "Elizabeth (NJ), Newark (NJ), Seattle, Woodbridge (VA)"
"text": "Atlanta, Boston, Brentwood (NY), Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Las Vegas (NV), Loreado (TX), Los Angeles, McAllen (TX), New York, San Bernardino (CA), San Francisco, Tucson (AZ), Washington (DC), Woodbridge (VA)"
}
},
"Diplomatic representation from the US": {
@ -1018,7 +1026,7 @@
"note": "<!-- x-tinymce/html --><strong>note:</strong> the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced downturn, particularly in mobile device production; many network operators delayed upgrades to infrastructure; progress towards 5G implementation was postponed or slowed in some countries; consumer spending on telecom services and devices was affected by large-scale job losses and the consequent restriction on disposable incomes; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home became evident, and received some support from governments"
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "multiple privately owned national terrestrial TV networks, supplemented by cable TV networks that carry international channels; hundreds of commercial radio broadcast stations and 1 government-owned radio broadcast station; transition to digital transmission to begin in 2018 along with adaptation of the Japanese-Brazilian Digital Standard (ISDB-T)"
"text": "multiple privately owned national terrestrial TV networks, supplemented by cable TV networks that carry international channels; hundreds of commercial radio broadcast stations and two known government-owned radio broadcast station; transition to digital transmission to begin in 2018 along with adaptation of the Japanese-Brazilian Digital Standard (ISDB-T) (2022)"
},
"Internet country code": {
"text": ".sv"

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "21.2% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "10.9% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "20.1% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "1.6% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "12.4% (2014/15)"
},

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "22.7% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "7.7% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "12.2% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "3.1% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "9.5% (2016/17)"
},
@ -994,7 +1005,7 @@
"note": "<strong>note:</strong> the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced downturn, particularly in mobile device production; many network operators delayed upgrades to infrastructure; progress towards 5G implementation was postponed or slowed in some countries; consumer spending on telecom services and devices was affected by large-scale job losses and the consequent restriction on disposable incomes; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home became evident, and received some support from governments"
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "<p>per 2019 data released by Haitian telecommunications regulator CONATEL (Conseil National des Télécommunications), there are 398 legal sound broadcasting stations on the territory, including about 60 community radio stations, and 7 radio stations on the AM band; the FM band in Haiti is oversaturated by 158%; most radio stations broadcast 17 to 19 hours a day; there are 105 television stations operating in Haiti, including 36 TV stations in Port- au- Prince, 41 others in the provinces, and more than 40 radio-television stations; a large number of broadcasting stations operate irregularly and some stations operate with technical parameters that do not comply with established standards, thus causing harmful interference to existing telecommunications systems; VOA Creole Service broadcasts daily on 30 affiliate stations</p> (2019)"
"text": "<p>per 2019 data released by Haitian telecommunications regulator CONATEL (Conseil National des Télécommunications), there are 398 legal sound broadcasting stations on the territory, including about 60 community radio stations, and 7 radio stations on the AM band; the FM band in Haiti is oversaturated by 158 percent; most radio stations broadcast 17 to 19 hours a day; there are 105 television stations operating in Haiti, including 36 TV stations in Port- au- Prince, 41 others in the provinces, and more than 40 radio-television stations; a large number of broadcasting stations operate irregularly and some stations operate with technical parameters that do not comply with established standards, thus causing harmful interference to existing telecommunications systems; VOA Creole Service broadcasts daily on 30 affiliate stations</p> (2019)"
},
"Internet country code": {
"text": ".ht"

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},
"election results": {
"text": "percent of vote by party - LIBRE 39.8%, PNH 31.3%, PL 16.4%, PSH 10.9%, DC 0.8%, PAC 0.8%; seats by bloc or party - LIBRE 51, PNH 40, PL 21, PSH 14, DC 1, PAC 1; composition - men 93, women 35, percent of women 27.3%"
}
},
"note": "<br><strong><em>note:</em></strong> seats by bloc or party as of 1 May 2022 - LIBRE 50, PNH 44, PL 22, PSH 10, DC 1, PAC 1"
},
"Judicial branch": {
"highest courts": {
@ -600,14 +601,14 @@
}
},
"Political parties and leaders": {
"text": "Anti-Corruption Party or PAC [Julio LOPEZ] <br>Christian Democratic Party or DC [Carlos PORTILLO] <br>Democratic Liberation of Honduras or Liderh [Lempira VIANA]<br>Democratic Unification Party or UD [Alfonso DIAZ] <br>The Front or El Frente [Kelin PEREZ]<br>Honduran Patriotic Alliance or AP [Romeo VASQUEZ Velasquez] <br>Innovation and Unity Party or PINU [Guillermo VALLE]<br>Liberal Party or PL [Yani Benjamin ROSENTHAL Hidalgo] <br>Liberty and Refoundation Party or LIBRE [Jose Manuel ZELAYA Rosales]<br>National Party of Honduras or PNH [Juan Nasry ASFURA] <br>New Route or NR [Esdras Amado LOPEZ] <br>Opposition Alliance against the Dictatorship or Alianza de Oposicion contra la Dictadura [Salvador NASRALLA] (electoral coalition)<br>Savior Party of Honduras or PSH [Salvador Alejandro Cesar NASRALLA Salum]<br>Vamos or Let’s Go [Jose COTO]<br>We Are All Hondurans (Todos Somos Honduras) or TSH [Marlon Oniel ESCOTO Valerio]"
"text": "Anti-Corruption Party or PAC [Julio LOPEZ] <br>Christian Democratic Party or DC [Carlos PORTILLO] <br>Democratic Liberation of Honduras or Liderh [Lempira VIANA]<br>Democratic Unification Party or UD [Alfonso DIAZ] <br>The Front or El Frente [Kelin PEREZ]<br>Honduran Patriotic Alliance or AP [Romeo VASQUEZ Velasquez] <br>Innovation and Unity Party or PINU [Guillermo VALLE]<br>Liberal Party or PL [Yani Benjamin ROSENTHAL Hidalgo] <br>Liberty and Refoundation Party or LIBRE [Jose Manuel ZELAYA Rosales]<br>National Party of Honduras or PNH [Juan Nasry ASFURA] <br>New Route or NR [Esdras Amado LOPEZ] <br>Opposition Alliance against the Dictatorship or Alianza de Oposicion contra la Dictadura [Salvador NASRALLA] (electoral coalition)<br>Savior Party of Honduras or PSH [Salvador Alejandro Cesar NASRALLA Salum]<br>Vamos or Let’s Go [Jose COTO]<br>We Are All Honduras (Todos Somos Honduras) or TSH [Marlon Oniel ESCOTO Valerio]"
},
"International organization participation": {
"text": "BCIE, CACM, CD, CELAC, EITI (candidate country), FAO, G-11, G-77, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC (suspended), IOM, IPU, ISO (subscriber), ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), LAES, LAIA (observer), MIGA, MINURSO, MINUSTAH, NAM, OAS, OPANAL, OPCW, Pacific Alliance (observer), PCA, Petrocaribe, SICA, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, Union Latina, UNWTO, UPU, WCO (suspended), WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO"
},
"Diplomatic representation in the US": {
"chief of mission": {
"text": "Ambassador Luis Fernando SUAZO BARAHONA (since 17 September 2020)"
"text": "Ambassador (vacant)"
},
"chancery": {
"text": "1220 19th Street NW, Suite #320, Washington, DC 20036"
@ -1034,7 +1035,7 @@
"note": "<strong>note:</strong> the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced downturn, particularly in mobile device production; many network operators delayed upgrades to infrastructure; progress towards 5G implementation was postponed or slowed in some countries; consumer spending on telecom services and devices was affected by large-scale job losses and the consequent restriction on disposable incomes; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home became evident, and received some support from governments"
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "multiple privately owned terrestrial TV networks, supplemented by multiple cable TV networks; Radio Honduras is the lone government-owned radio network; roughly 300 privately owned radio stations"
"text": "multiple privately owned terrestrial TV networks, supplemented by multiple cable TV networks; Radio Honduras is the lone government-owned radio network; roughly 300 privately owned radio stations (2019)"
},
"Internet country code": {
"text": ".hn"

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "24.7% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "9.4% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "15% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "3.8% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "4.4% (2016)"
},

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"text": "last held on 7 November 2021 (next to be held on 1 November 2026)"
},
"election results": {
"text": "percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - FSLN 75, PLC 9, ALN 2, APRE 1, CCN 1, PLI 1, YATAMA 1; composition - men 44, women 47, percent of women 51.1%"
"text": "percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - FSLN 75, PLC 10, ALN 2, APRE 1, PLI 2, YATAMA 1; composition - men 45, women 46, percent of women 50.6%"
}
},
"Judicial branch": {
@ -585,7 +585,7 @@
}
},
"Political parties and leaders": {
"text": "Alliance for the Republic or APRE [Carlos CANALES]<br>Conservative Party or PC [Alfredo CESAR]<br>Independent Liberal Party or PLI [Jose del Carmen ALVARADO]<br>Liberal Constitutionalist Party or PLC [Maria Haydee OSUNA]<br>Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance or ALN [Alejandro MEJIA Ferreti]<br>Nicaraguan Party of the Christian Path or CCN [Guillermo OSORNO]<br>Sandinista National Liberation Front or FSLN [Jose Daniel ORTEGA Saavedra]<br>Sandinista Renovation Movement or MRS [Suyen BARAHONA]<br>Sons of Mother Earth or YATAMA [Brooklyn RIVERA]"
"text": "Alliance for the Republic or APRE [Carlos CANALES]<br>Alternative for Change or AC (operates in a political alliance with the FSLN) [Orlando Jose TARDENCILLA]<br>Autonomous Liberal Party or PAL [Rene Margarito BELLO ROMERO]<strong><br></strong>Caribbean Unity Movement or PAMUC [Armando Francisco ARISTA FLORES]<br>Christian Unity Party or PUC (operates in a political alliance with the FSLN) [Guillermo Daniel ORTEGA REYES]<strong><br></strong>Citizens for Liberty or CxL [Carmella ROGERS AUMBURN]; note - cancelled by the Supreme Electoral Council on 8/6/2021<br>Conservative Party or PC [Alfredo CESAR]<br>Democratic Restoration Party or PRD [Saturnino CERRATO]; note - cancelled by the Supreme Electoral Council on 5/18/2021<br>Independent Liberal Party or PLI [Mario ASENSIO]<br>Liberal Constitutionalist Party or PLC [Maria Haydee OSUNA]<br>Moskitia Indigenous Progressive Movement or MOSKITIA PAWANKA (operates in a political alliance with the FSLN) [Wycliff Diego BLANDON]<br>Multiethnic Indigenous Party or PIM (operates in a political alliance with the FSLN) [Carla Elvis WHITE HODGSON]<br>Nationalist Liberal Party or PLN (operates in a political alliance with the FSLN) [Constantino Raul VELASQUEZ]<br>Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance or ALN [Alejandro MEJIA Ferreti]<br>Nicaraguan Party of the Christian Path or CCN [Guillermo OSORNO]<br>Nicaraguan Resistance Party or PRN (operates in a political alliance with the FSLN) [Julio Cesar BLANDON SANCHEZ]<strong><br></strong>Sandinista National Liberation Front or FSLN [Jose Daniel ORTEGA Saavedra]<br>Sandinista Renovation Movement or MRS [Suyen BARAHONA]; note - cancelled by the Supreme Electoral Council on 6/21/2008; in January 2021 they rebranded and now call themselves Democratic Renovation Union or UNAMOS<br>Sons of Mother Earth or YATAMA [Brooklyn RIVERA]<br>The New Sons of Mother Earth Movement or MYATAMARAN (operates in a political alliance with the FSLN) [Osorno Salomon COLEMAN]"
},
"International organization participation": {
"text": "BCIE, CACM, CD, CELAC, FAO, G-77, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), LAES, LAIA (observer), MIGA, NAM, OAS, OPANAL, OPCW, PCA, Petrocaribe, SICA, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, Union Latina, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO"

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "22.7% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "5% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "7.7% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "2.2% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "3% (2019)"
},
@ -601,7 +612,7 @@
},
"Diplomatic representation in the US": {
"chief of mission": {
"text": "Ambassador (vacant); Charge d'Affaires Laura CASTRO Grimaldo (since December 2021)"
"text": "Ambassador (vacant); Charge d'Affaires Laura CASTRO Grimaldo (since 28 November 2021)"
},
"chancery": {
"text": "2862 McGill Terrace NW, Washington, DC 20007"

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"text": "bicameral Parliament consists of:<br>Senate (31 seats; 16 members appointed by the ruling party, 9 by the president, and 6 by the opposition party; members serve 5-year terms;)<br>House of Representatives (42 seats; 41 members directly elected in single-seat constituencies by simple majority vote and the house speaker - usually designated from outside Parliament; members serve 5-year terms)"
},
"elections": {
"text": "Senate - last appointments in August 2020<br>House of Representatives - last held on 10 August 2020 (next to be held in 2025)"
"text": "Senate - last appointments on 28 August 2020 (next appointments in August 2025)<br>House of Representatives - last held on 10 August 2020 (next to be held in 2025)"
},
"election results": {
"text": "Senate - percent by party - NA; seats by party - NA; composition - men 21, women 10, percent of women 32.3%<br>House of Representatives - percent by party - NA; seats by party - PNM 22, UNC 19; composition - NA"
"text": "Senate - percent by party - NA; seats by party - NA; composition as of May 2020 - men 19, women 13, percent of women 40.6%<br>House of Representatives - percent by party - NA; seats by party - PNM 22, UNC 19; composition - as of May 2022 - men 31, women 11, percent of women 26.2%; note - overall Parliament percent of women 32.4%"
},
"note": "<strong>note:</strong> Tobago has a unicameral House of Assembly (19 seats; 15 assemblymen directly elected by simple majority vote and 4 appointed councilors - 3 on the advice of the chief secretary and 1 on the advice of the minority leader; members serve 4-year terms)"
},

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "16.6% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "25.4% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "48% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "2.8% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "1.8% (2018)"
},
@ -517,10 +528,10 @@
},
"Constitution": {
"history": {
"text": "previous 1993; latest adopted by referendum 27 June 2010, effective 2 July 2010; note - constitutional amendments that bolstered some presidential powers and transferred others from the president to the prime minister were passed in late 2017"
"text": "previous 1993, 2007, 2010; latest approved by referendum in April 2021 that transitioned Kyrgyzstan from a parliamentary to a presidential system, and implemented changes that allow the president to serve for two 5-year terms rather that one 6-year term, reduced the number of seats in Kyrgyzstan's legislature from 120 to 90, and established a Kurultay - a public advisory council"
},
"amendments": {
"text": "proposed as a draft law by the majority of the Supreme Council membership or by petition of 300,000 voters; passage requires at least two-thirds majority vote of the Council membership in each of at least three readings of the draft two months apart; the draft may be submitted to a referendum if approved by two thirds of the Council membership; adoption requires the signature of the president; amended 2017, 2021; note - voters approved a constitutional referendum in April 2021 that transitioned Kyrgyzstan from a parliamentary to a presidential system, and implemented changes that allow the president to serve for two five-year terms rather that one six-year term, reduces the number of seats in Kyrgyzstan's legislature from 120 to 90, and establishes a Kurultay - a public advisory council"
"text": "proposed as a draft law by the majority of the Supreme Council membership or by petition of 300,000 voters; passage requires at least two-thirds majority vote of the Council membership in each of at least three readings of the draft two months apart; the draft may be submitted to a referendum if approved by two thirds of the Council membership; adoption requires the signature of the president"
}
},
"Legal system": {

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "21% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "23.2% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "39.6% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "6.7% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "2% (2015)"
},
@ -562,7 +573,7 @@
"text": "Prime Minister Alikhan SMAILOV (since 11 January 2022); note - Prime Minister Askar MAMIN resigned on 5 January 2022 in the wake of massive protests of his government that began 2 January 2022 following a sudden, steep rise in gasoline prices"
},
"cabinet": {
"text": "the president appoints ministers after consultations with the Chair of the Security Council (NAZARBAYEV) who has veto power over all appointments except for the ministers of defense, internal affairs, and foreign affairs; however, the president is required to discuss these three offices with the National Security Committee, which NAZARBAYEV chairs under a lifetime appointment"
"text": "the president appoints ministers after consultations with the Chair of the Security Council (NAZARBAYEV) who has veto power over all appointments except for the ministers of defense, internal affairs, and foreign affairs; however, the president is required to discuss these three offices with the National Security Committee, which NAZARBAYEV chairs under a lifetime appointment; however, in January 2022, the Mazhilis of Kazakhstan canceled Nursultan NAZARBAYEV&rsquo;s lifelong chairmanship of the Security Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan"
},
"elections/appointments": {
"text": "president directly elected by simple majority popular vote for a 5-year term (eligible for a second consecutive term); election last held on 9 June 2019 (next to be held in 2024); prime minister and deputy prime ministers appointed by the president, approved by the Mazhilis"
@ -584,10 +595,10 @@
},
"Judicial branch": {
"highest courts": {
"text": "Supreme Court of the Republic (consists of 44 members); Constitutional Council (consists of the chairman and 6 members)"
"text": "Supreme Court of the Republic (consists of 44 members); Constitutional Council (consists of the chairperson and 6 members)"
},
"judge selection and term of office": {
"text": "Supreme Court judges proposed by the president of the republic on recommendation of the Supreme Judicial Council and confirmed by the Senate; judges normally serve until age 65 but can be extended to age 70; Constitutional Council - the president of the republic, the Senate chairperson, and the Mazhilis chairperson each appoints 2 members for a 6-year term; chairman of the Constitutional Council appointed by the president for a 6-year term"
"text": "Supreme Court judges proposed by the president of the republic on recommendation of the Supreme Judicial Council and confirmed by the Senate; judges normally serve until age 65 but can be extended to age 70; Constitutional Council - the president of the republic, the Senate chairperson, and the Mazhilis chairperson each appoints 2 members for a 6-year term; chairperson of the Constitutional Council appointed by the president for a 6-year term"
},
"subordinate courts": {
"text": "regional and local courts"

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "23.1% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "26.8% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "40.8% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "12.8% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "NA"
},
@ -1257,7 +1268,7 @@
},
"Military deployments": {
"text": "information varies; est. 3,000-4,000 Armenia; approximately 2,000 Azerbaijan (peacekeepers for Nagorno-Karabakh); est. 3,000-5,000 Belarus; est. 7,000-10,000 Georgia; est. 500 Kyrgyzstan; est. 1,500-2,000 Moldova (Transnistria); est. 3,000-5,000 Syria; est. 5,000-7,000 Tajikistan (February 2022)",
"note": "note(s) - in February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine with an estimated 150,000 troops; prior to the invasion, it maintained an estimated 30,000 troops in areas of Ukraine occupied since 2014<br><br>--prior to the invasion of Ukraine, Russia was assessed to have about 3,000-5,000 private military contractors conducting military and security operations in Africa, including in the Central African Republic, Libya, and Mali"
"note": "note(s) - in February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine with an estimated 150,000 troops; prior to the invasion, it maintained an estimated 30,000 troops in areas of Ukraine occupied since 2014<br><br>--prior to the invasion of Ukraine, Russia was assessed to have about 3,000-5,000 private military contractors conducting military and security operations in Africa, including in the Central African Republic, Libya, Mali, and Sudan"
},
"Military - note": {
"text": "as of 2022, Russian military forces continued to conduct active combat operations in Syria; Russia intervened in the Syrian civil war at the request of the ASAD government in September 2015; Russian assistance included air support, special operations forces, military advisors, private military contractors, training, arms, and equipment<br><br>Russia is the leading member of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and contributes approximately 8,000 troops to CSTO's rapid reaction force (2022)"
@ -1275,7 +1286,7 @@
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
"text": "1,041,095 (border crossings from Ukraine as of 1 June 2022)"
"text": "1,136,243 (border crossings from Ukraine as of 9 June 2022)"
},
"stateless persons": {
"text": "56,960 (mid-year 2021); note - Russia's stateless population consists of Roma, Meskhetian Turks, and ex-Soviet citizens from the former republics; between 2003 and 2010 more than 600,000 stateless people were naturalized; most Meskhetian Turks, followers of Islam with origins in Georgia, fled or were evacuated from Uzbekistan after a 1989 pogrom and have lived in Russia for more than the required five-year residency period; they continue to be denied registration for citizenship and basic rights by local Krasnodar Krai authorities on the grounds that they are temporary illegal migrants"

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "18.6% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "5.5% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "10.6% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "0.4% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "3.1% (2019)"
},
@ -555,7 +566,7 @@
},
"Legislative branch": {
"description": {
"text": "bicameral National Council or Milli Genesi consists of:<br>People's Council or Halk Maslahaty (56 seats; 48 members indirectly elected by provincial councils and 8 members appointed by the president)<br>Assembly or Mejlisi (125 seats; members directly elected in single-seat constituencies by absolute majority vote in 2 rounds if needed to serve 5-year terms)<br><br>note: in September 2020, the Turkmenistani legislature (Milli Genesi) adopted a constitutional amendment creating an upper chamber, making the legislature bicameral; the chairperson of the Halk Maslahaty is now designated as the constitutional successor to the presidency; as of March 2022, Gurbanguly BERDIMUHAMEDOW continues to serve in this position after stepping away from the presidency."
"text": "bicameral National Council or Milli Genesi consists of:<br>People's Council or Halk Maslahaty (56 seats; 48 members indirectly elected by provincial councils and 8 members appointed by the president)<br>Assembly or Mejlisi (125 seats; members directly elected in single-seat constituencies by absolute majority vote in 2 rounds if needed to serve 5-year terms)<br><br>note: in September 2020, the Turkmenistani legislature (Milli Genesi) adopted a constitutional amendment creating an upper chamber, making the legislature bicameral; the chairperson of the Halk Maslahaty is now designated as the constitutional successor to the presidency; as of March 2022, Gurbanguly BERDIMUHAMEDOW continues to serve in this position after stepping away from the presidency"
},
"elections": {
"text": "People's Council - first held on 28 March 2021 for 48 indirectly elected members (next to be held in 2026); first held on 14 April 2021 for 8 presidentially appointed members (next to be held NA)<br>Assembly - last held on 25 March 2018 (next to be held NA)"
@ -584,7 +595,7 @@
},
"Diplomatic representation in the US": {
"chief of mission": {
"text": "Ambassador Meret ORAZOW (since 14 February 2001)"
"text": "Ambassador Meret ORAZOV (since 14 February 2001)"
},
"chancery": {
"text": "2207 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008"

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "16.6% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "17.6% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "34% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "1.1% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "2.9% (2017)"
},

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "5.8% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "44.1% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "68.5% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "19.7% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "19.1% (2017/18)"
},
@ -642,7 +653,7 @@
},
"Diplomatic representation in the US": {
"chief of mission": {
"text": "Ambassador (vacant); HTWE Hteik Tin Lwin (Charge d'Affaires)"
"text": "Ambassador (vacant); Charge d'Affaires HTWE Hteik Tin Lwin (since 5 February 2022)"
},
"chancery": {
"text": "2300 S Street NW, Washington, DC 20008"
@ -1211,7 +1222,7 @@
"text": "18-35 years of age (men) and 18-27 years of age (women) for voluntary military service; no conscription (a 2010 law reintroducing conscription has not yet entered into force); 2-year service obligation; male (ages 18-45) and female (ages 18-35) professionals (including doctors, engineers, mechanics) serve up to 3 years; service terms may be stretched to 5 years in an officially declared emergency (2021)"
},
"Military - note": {
"text": "<p>since the country's founding, the armed forces have been heavily involved in domestic politics, running the country for five decades following a military coup in 1962; prior to the 2021 coup, the military already controlled three key security ministries (Defense, Border, and Home Affairs), one of two vice presidential appointments, 25% of the parliamentary seats, and had a proxy political party, the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP)<br><br>as of 2022, the military owned and operated two business conglomerates that had over 100 subsidiaries and close ties to other companies; the business activities of these conglomerates included banking and insurance, hotels, tourism, jade and ruby mining, timber, construction, real estate, and the production of palm oil, sugar, soap, cement, beverages, drinking water, coal, and gas; some of the companies supplied goods and services to the military, such as food, clothing, insurance, and cellphone service; the military also managed a film industry, publishing houses, and television stations <br><br>as of 2022, the military's primary operational focus was internal security, particularly attempts to quell civilian armed resistance to the coup and counterinsurgency operations against ethnic-based insurgent groups; these operations have resulted in numerous civilian casualties, human rights abuses, and internal displacement</p> <p>ethnic-based armed groups have been fighting against the Burmese Government since the country’s 1948 independence; as of 2022, there were approximately 20 such groups operating in Burma with strengths of a few hundred up to more than 20,000 estimated fighters; they reportedly controlled an estimated one-third of the country’s territory, primarily in the border regions; key groups included the United Wa State Army, Karen National Union, Kachin Independence Army, Arakan Army, Ta’ang National Liberation Army, and the Myanmar Nationalities Democratic Alliance Army</p> <p>as of 2022, 10 ethnic ethnic armed groups had signed a 2015 Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement with the government; following the 2021 coup, several armed ethnic groups have added their support to anti-junta resistance groups or joined forces with local units of the armed wing of Burma's pro-democracy movement, known collectively as the People's Defense Force (PDF); the PDF consisted of hundreds of loosely-organized groups of fighters </p> <p>as of 2022, Burma also had a large number (estimates run into the thousands) of armed militias which took many different forms and varied in allegiances and size; most were pro-military government and associated with the Tatmadaw; some were integrated within the Tatmadaw’s command structure as Border Guard Forces (BGF); the BGF were organized as 325-man battalions, which included a mix of militia forces, ethnic armed groups, and government soldiers; they were armed, supplied, and paid by the Tatmadaw; other pro-military government militias were not integrated within the Tatmadaw command structure, but received direction from the military and were recognized as government militias; the amount of support they received from the Tatmadaw varied depending on local security conditions; the third type of pro-military government militias were small community-based units that were armed, coordinated, and trained by local Tatmadaw forces and activated as needed; as of 2022, the military government was reportedly raising new militia units to help combat the popular uprising<br><br></p>"
"text": "<p>since the country's founding, the armed forces have been heavily involved in domestic politics, running the country for five decades following a military coup in 1962; prior to the 2021 coup, the military already controlled three key security ministries (Defense, Border, and Home Affairs), one of two vice presidential appointments, 25% of the parliamentary seats, and had a proxy political party, the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP)<br><br>as of 2022, the military owned and operated two business conglomerates that had over 100 subsidiaries and close ties to other companies; the business activities of these conglomerates included banking and insurance, hotels, tourism, jade and ruby mining, timber, construction, real estate, and the production of palm oil, sugar, soap, cement, beverages, drinking water, coal, and gas; some of the companies supplied goods and services to the military, such as food, clothing, insurance, and cellphone service; the military also managed a film industry, publishing houses, and television stations <br><br>as of 2022, the military's primary operational focus was internal security, particularly attempts to quell a growing armed insurgency against the coup and operations against ethnic-based separatist groups; these operations have resulted in numerous civilian casualties, human rights abuses, and internal displacement</p> <p>ethnic-based armed groups have been fighting for self-rule against the Burmese Government since the country’s 1948 independence; as of 2022, there were approximately 20 such groups operating in Burma with strengths of a few hundred up to more than 20,000 estimated fighters; they reportedly controlled an estimated one-third of the country’s territory, primarily in the border regions; key groups included the United Wa State Army, Karen National Union, Kachin Independence Army, Arakan Army, Ta’ang National Liberation Army, and the Myanmar Nationalities Democratic Alliance Army</p> <p>as of 2022, Burma also had a large number of armed militias which took many different forms and varied in allegiances and size; most were pro-military junta and associated with the Tatmadaw; some were integrated within the Tatmadaw’s command structure as Border Guard Forces (BGF); the BGF were organized as 325-man battalions, which included a mix of militia forces, ethnic armed groups, and government soldiers; they were armed, supplied, and paid by the Tatmadaw; other pro-military government militias were not integrated within the Tatmadaw command structure, but received direction from the military and were recognized as government militias; the amount of support they received from the Tatmadaw varied depending on local security conditions; the third type of pro-government militias were small community-based units that were armed, coordinated, and trained by local Tatmadaw forces and activated as needed; as of 2022, the military junta government was reportedly raising new militia units to help combat the popular uprising<br><br>more than 400 local anti-military junta armed groups have reportedly formed since the military coup; in mid-2022, the National Unity Government claimed its armed wing, the People's Defense Force (PDF) had more than 60,000 fighters organized into battalions; in addition, several armed ethnic groups have added their support to anti-junta resistance groups or joined forces with local units of the PDF</p> <p><br><br></p>"
}
},
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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "14.1% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "16.2% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "30% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "2.3% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "NA"
},

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "3.9% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "21.1% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "36.1% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "6% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "24.1% (2014)"
},
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},
"elections/appointments": {
"text": "monarch chosen by the 9-member Royal Council of the Throne from among all eligible males of royal descent; following legislative elections, a member of the majority party or majority coalition named prime minister by the Chairman of the National Assembly and appointed by the monarch"
}
},
"note": "note - in December 2021, the Cambodian People's Party voted unanimously for HUN SEN's oldest son, HUN MANET, to succeed his father"
},
"Legislative branch": {
"description": {
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},
"Diplomatic representation in the US": {
"chief of mission": {
"text": "Ambassador CHUM SOUNRY (since 17 September 2018)"
"text": "Ambassador KEO Chhea (since 19 April 2022)"
},
"chancery": {
"text": "4530 16th Street NW, Washington, DC 20011"
@ -1184,7 +1196,7 @@
"text": "information varies; approximately 100,000 total active troops including about 3,000 Navy and 1,000 Air Force; est. 10,000 Gendarmerie (2021)"
},
"Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": {
"text": "the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces are armed largely with older Chinese and Russian-origin equipment; since 2010, it has received limited amounts of more modern equipment from a variety of suppliers, led by China (2021)"
"text": "the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces are armed largely with older Chinese and Russian-origin equipment; since 2010, it has received limited amounts of more modern equipment from a variety of suppliers, particularly China (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
"text": "18 is the legal minimum age for compulsory and voluntary military service (conscription only selectively enforced since 1993); women may volunteer (2021)",
@ -1194,7 +1206,7 @@
"text": "200 Central African Republic (MINUSCA); 180 Lebanon (UNIFIL); 290 Mali (MINUSMA) (Jan 2022)"
},
"Military - note": {
"text": "<p>the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) was re-established in 1993 under the first coalition government from the merger of the Cambodian Government’s military forces (Cambodian People’s Armed Forces) and the two non-communist resistance forces (Sihanoukist National Army, aka National Army for Khmer Independence, and the Khmer People's National Liberation Armed Forces); thousands of communist Khmer Rouge fighters began surrendering by 1994 under a government amnesty program and the last of the Khmer Rouge forces (National Army of Democratic Kampuchea) were demobilized or absorbed into the RCAF in 1999</p> <p> </p>"
"text": "the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) was re-established in 1993 under the first coalition government from the merger of the Cambodian Government&rsquo;s military forces (Cambodian People&rsquo;s Armed Forces) and the two non-communist resistance forces (Sihanoukist National Army, aka National Army for Khmer Independence, and the Khmer People's National Liberation Armed Forces); thousands of communist Khmer Rouge fighters began surrendering by 1994 under a government amnesty program and the last of the Khmer Rouge forces (National Army of Democratic Kampuchea) were demobilized or absorbed into the RCAF in 1999 (2022)"
}
},
"Transnational Issues": {

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "6.2% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "25.6% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "49.4% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "1.7% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "2.4% (2013)"
},
@ -638,7 +649,7 @@
},
"Diplomatic representation in the US": {
"chief of mission": {
"text": "Ambassador QIN Gangas (since 29 July 2021)"
"text": "Ambassador QIN Gang (since 29 July 2021)"
},
"chancery": {
"text": "3505 International Place NW, Washington, DC 20008"

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"note": "<strong>note:</strong> the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced downturn, particularly in mobile device production; many network operators delayed upgrades to infrastructure; progress towards 5G implementation was postponed or slowed in some countries; consumer spending on telecom services and devices was affected by large-scale job losses and the consequent restriction on disposable incomes; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home became evident, and received some support from governments"
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "4 commercial terrestrial TV networks each with multiple stations; multi-channel satellite and cable TV systems available; 3 licensed broadcasters of terrestrial radio, one of which is government funded, operate about 12 radio stations; note - 4 digital radio broadcasters operated in Hong Kong from 2010 to 2017, but all digital radio services were terminated in September 2017 due to weak market demand (2019)"
"text": "34 commercial terrestrial TV networks each with multiple stations; multi-channel satellite and cable TV systems available; 3 licensed broadcasters of terrestrial radio, one of which is government funded, operate about 12 radio stations; note - 4 digital radio broadcasters operated in Hong Kong from 2010 to 2017, but all digital radio services were terminated in September 2017 due to weak market demand (2019)"
},
"Internet country code": {
"text": ".hk"

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "6.9% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "37.6% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "71.4% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "3.7% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "17.7% (2018)"
},
@ -633,7 +644,7 @@
},
"Diplomatic representation in the US": {
"chief of mission": {
"text": "Ambassador Rosan ROESLANI (since 25 October 2021)"
"text": "Ambassador Rosan Perkasa ROESLANI (since 25 October 2021)"
},
"chancery": {
"text": "2020 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20036"

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "4.3% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "20.1% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "30.1% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "10% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "NA"
},

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "6.8% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "17.4% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "34.8% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "0% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "9.3% (2017)"
},

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "4.7% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "20.8% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "35.7% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "5.9% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "NA"
},

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "5.3% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "31.8% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "53.3% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "10.3% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "21.1% (2017)"
},

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "20.6% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "29.4% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "51.7% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "7.1% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "1.8% (2018)"
},

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "15.6% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "22.5% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "43.8% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "1.1% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "14.1% (2019)"
},
@ -603,7 +614,7 @@
},
"Diplomatic representation in the US": {
"chief of mission": {
"text": "ambassador (vacant); Charge d'Affaires Fairuz Adli Mohd ROZALI (since August 2021)"
"text": "ambassador (vacant); Charge d'Affaires Fairuz Adli Mohd ROZALI (since 28 August 2021)"
},
"chancery": {
"text": "3516 International Court NW, Washington, DC 20008"

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "21.3% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "39.3% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "53.5% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "25.1% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "27.8% (2009/11)"
},

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "6.4% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "22.9% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "39.3% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "6.5% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "19.1% (2018)"
},

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "6.1% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "16.5% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "28% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "5% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "NA"
},

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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "10% (2016)"
},
"Tobacco use": {
"total": {
"text": "22.1% (2020 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "41.3% (2020 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "2.9% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
"text": "7.7% (2019)"
},

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