The 1974 drought enabled the shift to civilian party rule in 1976
Evidence
This national catastrophe, which was thus quite effectively contained and even taken advantage of, prompted a major reorganization of the government in December 1974. This in turn helped to prepare for the eventual introduction in July 1976 of the much heralded political party, the Somali Socialist Revolutionary Party, and the official replacement of military by civilian rule, a development for which the Russians had long been pressing. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 531
Categorization
- XREF: Builds toward the party/1950s legacy arc and the eventual collapse back to military rule covered later.