Ghana Armed Forces

Ghana Armed Forces
Ghana Armed Forces
Founded	1957
Service branches	Army; Air Force; Navy;
Headquarters	Burma Camp, Greater Accra
Website	Official website
Leadership
Commander-in-Chief	Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo
Minister of Defence	Dominic Nitiwul
Chief of the Defence Staff	Lieutenant General Thomas Oppong-Peprah
Personnel
Military age	16–30 years of age (2013)
Conscription	No conscription: not married and not bonded (2013)
Active personnel	15,500
Expenditure
Budget	$360 million (2019)
Percent of GDP	0.4% (2019)
Industry
Foreign suppliers	Netherlands; United Kingdom; United States; Canada; India; Hong Kong
Related articles
History	Gold Coast Regiment Military governments National Liberation Council (1966–1969); National Redemption Council (1972–1975); Supreme Military Council (1975–1979); Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (1979); Provisional National Defence Council (1981–1993); ; Operations abroad United Nations Operation in the Congo (1960–1964); Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990); Rwandan Civil War (1990–1994); Rwandan genocide (1994); Western Sahara War (1975–1991); Sierra Leone Civil War (1991–2002); First Liberian Civil War (1989–1996); Second Liberian Civil War (1999–2003); Second Congo War (1998–2003); Chadian Civil War (2005–2010); Sudan–South Sudan Border War (2012); First Ivorian Civil War (2002–2007); Eritrean–Ethiopian War (1998–2000); Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988); Nepalese Civil War (1996–2006); Georgian–Abkhazian conflict (1989–present); ;
Ranks	Military ranks of Ghana

The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) is the state military organisation of Ghana, consisting of the Army (GA), Navy (GN), and Ghana Air Force.^[3]

The Commander-in-Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces is the president of Ghana, who is also the supreme military commander of the Border Guard Unit (BGU). The armed forces are managed by the Minister of Defence^[4] and the Chief of Defence Staff.

^ ^a ^b "General recruitment exercise-2013 Entry requirements into the Ghana Armed Forces". gaf.mil.gh. 2013. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 25 April 2014.
^ ^a ^b ^c CIA World Factbook, accessed 29 October 2020
^ Central Intelligence Agency, The World Factbook: Ghana, accessed 15 November 2011
^ International Institute for Strategic Studies; Hackett, James (ed.) (3 February 2010). The Military Balance 2010. London: Routledge. pp. 309–311. ISBN 978-1857435573. {{cite book}}: |author2= has generic name (help)