Eritrea in transition – The role of civil society
By Nahum Kidan When the tide of change finally reaches Eritrean shores, the new transitional government will be presented with monumental challenges, including the urgent need to rebuild the three branches of the state (executive, legislature and judiciary) which will be critical to sustaining our democracy. State institutions and the systems of checks and balances they confer have been systematically dismantled by Isaias Afwerki over the last few decades, enabling him to con