Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has started a visit to Mauritania during which he will participate in an international conference.
It marks the first visit by an Algerian head of state to Mauritania in nearly 37 years.
The last such visit was in 1987 by President Chadli Bendjedid to the Mauritanian city of Nouadhibou to inaugurate an oil refinery.
Tebboune who was received at Nouakchott Airport by his Mauritanian counterpart Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani, is set to join other African leaders at the two-day conference with the theme “Educate and Skill Africa for the 21st Century” which begins today.
