Algeria is now top of Mauritania's African trading partners, according to official figures released by Mauritania's National Bureau of Statistics for the second quarter of 2019.

Algeria is now top of Mauritania's African trading partners, according to official figures released by Mauritania's National Bureau of Statistics for the second quarter of 2019.

According to the same statistics, Algeria beat Mauritania's trading partners in Africa in the second quarter of this year with the highest 28 percent of Mauritania's imports, followed by Morocco with 23.9 percent, Togo 14.6 percent and Mali at 9.5 percent.

During the same period, Mauritania's imports from African countries reached 4.5 billion ounces, accounting for 10.8 percent of the country's total imports from abroad, up from 8.1 percent in the first quarter of this year.

As a reminder, Algeria has intensified its efforts over the past period to gain a share of the Mauritanian market, from the launch of a land crossing between the two countries to the organization of several export convoys because of the importance of the Mauritanian market and the fact that it is an export terminal for the rest of the African continent.