Military Service Reform: National service also requires reform. Basic training should be limited to eighteen months. Serving personnel should work under clearer and more humane conditions: a forty-hour week, a maximum of eight hours a day with a one-hour break, a higher minimum wage, fifteen to twenty days of annual leave, and a service contract limited to five years, renewable only by choice. Basic service itself should not exceed five years. Economic Reforms: Economic reform is equally urgent. With sanctions removed, Eritrea should concentrate on raising prosperity for ordinary citizens. Long-standing restrictions on the economy need to be eased. Since the early 2000s, the government has banned private construction and limited bank withdrawals to 5,000 nakfa per person per month. Importing goods, including vehicles, has also been extremely difficult. Many Eritrean entrepreneurs have left the country and built successful businesses abroad — hotels, construction firms, supermarkets, and hospitals in Uganda, gold-related enterprises in the UAE — while declining to invest at home. The question is why they cannot do the same in Eritrea. Lifting the ban on private construction would create jobs, ease the housing shortage, and attract foreign investment. A construction boom would also support transport, engineering, hotels, and fuel stations.