National Movement For The Development Of Society
The National Movement for the Society of Development - MNSD (1989-1991)/ MNSD-Nassara (1991-) (French: Mouvement National pour la Société du Développement) is a political party in Niger. Founded under the military government of the 1974-1990 period, it was the ruling party of Niger from 1989 to 1993 and again from 1999 until a coup on February 18, 2010, by a military junta called the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy (CSRD) ousted the president, Tandja Mamadou.
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