?Somalia? a number-seven-shaped country on the north-eastern horn of the African continent, as long been a contested concept, even amongst Somalis. For example, at independence in 1960 when British Somaliland and Italian Somaliland united to form The Republic of Somalia, some Somalis agitated for a much larger version of a country. Their country, a Greater Somalia ...

Somalia' is often portrayed as the quintessential ungovernable, failed state ? with pirates, terrorists and humanitarian crises as a consequence. This article tells how Somalis in Somaliland and Puntland today have realised a degree of successful governance in the Horn of Africa.