ABSTRACT
A near-fatal car accident seriously injured Siad Barre and shook up his administration, his family, and his rivals. In the accident's immediate aftermath there was a flurry of internal struggles for power within ail camps grounded in the assumption that this accident spelled the end of the regime. In May the World Bank published a report critical of the project aid Somalia had been receiving, which the bank claimed was far in excess of the Somalis' ability to handle. The Somali government unilaterally withdrew from the International Monetary Fund by returning to a fixed parity between the Somali shilling and the dollar. Tensions were palpable in Mogadishu once more, with new pamphlets appearing from within the Hawiye camp calling for the expulsion of Daroods from Mogadishu, which the Hawiye considered within their geographical domain. On July 3 the Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party's central committee rejected the possibility of revising the constitution or instituting any sort of political reform.
