A report by the UN Integrated Regional Information Networks contends that politically and socially, little changed in 2005 for Somalia, a nation of approximately 7 million. Having suffered a 14-year civil war, most of its citizens were optimistic that the year following the creation of a transitional federal government (TFG)would herald substantive change. Continued bickering within the TFG, however, dashed the hopes of many Somalis that the years of anarchy and chaos were coming to an end.