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Antoine Ndzengue

Central African Republic
IMF gives go-ahead for third aid installment

Next month, the International Monetary Fund will announce the release of its third aid payment. It's a victory for Faustin-Archange Touadéra, who is struggling to stem an increasingly worrying economic situation.

Subscribers only Politics 16.05.2025

Nigeria
Aliko Dangote looks to branch out into fuel retailing

The owner of the Dangote conglomerate is exploring new avenues for selling his fuel in Nigeria. After signing several agreements with distributors, the billionaire may be intending to secure his own petrol stations.

Subscribers only Energy, Commodity traders 25.04.2025

Businessman Aliko Dangote in Lagos, in May 2023.

Cameroon, Central African Republic
Russian fuel donation to CAR remains stuck in Cameroon

Russia's donation of fuel to CAR remains in Cameroon, which fears some of it could be sold on the local market and possibly spark US sanctions. Neptune Oil has been tasked with getting it to Bangui.

Subscribers only Energy 10.03.2025

In Focus | Cameroon, Central African Republic
Between business and politics, the secrets of Antoine Ndzengue's rise

From Yaoundé to Bangui, the Cameroonian has built up a powerful network and skilfully uses it to develop his wide-ranging business interests. Yet his wheeling and dealing has strained relations between the Central African Republic and international finance bodies.

Subscribers only Commodity traders, Politics, Business 03.03.2025

Central African Republic
IMF sends last-ditch mission to Bangui

A team from the International Monetary Fund is due in the Central African Republic on 9 January to try to reestablish dialogue. Relations between the financial institution and Bangui have been strained for many months due to a failure to reform the country's fuel prices.

Subscribers only Finance, Energy 09.01.2025

Central African Republic
IMF denies CAR millions of dollars in aid due to Neptune Oil's continuing monopoly

The International Monetary Fund is unlikely to release its third instalment of aid, depriving Bangui of around $20m. At issue is the Cameroonian company Neptune Oil's monopoly on fuel imports and its pump prices, deemed exorbitant.

Subscribers only Energy, Diplomacy 17.12.2024

Central African Republic
Neptune Oil manoeuvres to become SOCASP shareholder

CAR energy minister Arthur Bertrand Piri is continuing to push for Cameroon's Neptune Oil to be allowed to take shares in Société Centrafrique de Stockage des Produits Pétroliers. But his latest attempt at a SOCASP shareholders' meeting in late October failed.

Subscribers only Energy 07.11.2024

Central African Republic
Neptune Oil threatens to pull out amid lower fuel price demands

The CAR energy minister recently visited the Cameroonian trading company's HQ in Douala to negotiate lower fuel prices. But its indignant owner, Antoine Ndzengue, refused outright and threatened to withdraw from the country.

Subscribers only Energy, Commodity traders 03.10.2024

Fuel vendors in front of an empty gas station in Bangui on 16 October 2022.

Central African Republic
Touadéra keeps an eye on his hydrocarbons minister nephew

Central African Republic Energy Minister Arthur Bertrand Piri is trying to sell shares in a petroleum products storage company to the Cameroonian firm Neptune Oil. The situation is being closely monitored by his uncle, President Faustin Archange Touadéra, and by Prime Minister Félix Moloua.

Subscribers only Energy 09.09.2024

Central African President Faustin-Archange Touadéra in Beijing on 5 September 2024.

Central African Republic
Tamoil boss questioned by Gendarmerie as conflict with government escalates

The company's CAR director, Clovis Kape, has been questioned by the Gendarmerie. The energy ministry is accusing him of inciting public disorder, amid a dispute over the supply of Jet A-1 kerosene for aircraft.

Subscribers only Energy 21.06.2024

Central African Republic
Tamoil petrol stations taken over as CAR's fuel crisis continues

Amid a major fuel shortage in the Central African Republic, Energy Minister Arthur Bertrand Piri decided to requisition six Tamoil petrol stations and give three of them to Prisca Mamadou, an influential businesswoman and wife to the head of the country's armed forces.

Subscribers only Energy, Politics 10.06.2024

Central African Republic
Cameroon's Neptune Oil under pressure in CAR

Faced with a worsening fuel crisis, Central African Republic lawmakers and the IMF want Energy Minister Arthur Bertrand Piri to end an exclusive deal with Cameroon's Neptune Oil.

Subscribers only Energy, Commodity traders, Politics 29.05.2024

Central African Republic
Discreet Parisian meeting between Touadéra and Tamoil RCA boss

Enguerrand Rochefort met the CAR president in Paris last week to discuss the problems his company faces in the Central African market.

Subscribers only Energy 25.04.2024

Central African Republic
Energy minister Piri thwarts Rochefort International's revival plans

The Paris-based investment bank is struggling to revive TotalEnergies' former subsidiary in the Central African Republic. The energy ministry has decided to go with a single fuel supplier, Cameroon's Neptune Oil, to the detriment of the distributor's margins.

Subscribers only Energy, Business 13.03.2024

Cameroon
Business leaders divided over plan to merge employers' bodies

Private sector chiefs don't see eye to eye about the merging of two organisations representing their interests. Both camps are trying to rally support, right up to the highest echelons of state.

Subscribers only Business 30.05.2023

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IMF denies CAR millions of dollars in aid due to Neptune Oil's continuing monopoly

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Neptune Oil threatens to pull out amid lower fuel price demands

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Central African Republic
Tamoil boss questioned by Gendarmerie as conflict with government escalates

Central African Republic
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Namibia
Namibia oil utopia hangs on TotalEnergies' final investment decision

Nigeria
The latest secrets of a $10bn legal scandal between Abuja and London

Central African Republic
IMF gives go-ahead for third aid installment

Nigeria
Aliko Dangote looks to branch out into fuel retailing

Cameroon, Central African Republic
Russian fuel donation to CAR remains stuck in Cameroon

In Focus | Cameroon, Central African Republic
Between business and politics, the secrets of Antoine Ndzengue's rise

Central African Republic
IMF sends last-ditch mission to Bangui

Central African Republic
IMF denies CAR millions of dollars in aid due to Neptune Oil's continuing monopoly

Central African Republic
Neptune Oil manoeuvres to become SOCASP shareholder

Central African Republic
Neptune Oil threatens to pull out amid lower fuel price demands

Central African Republic
Touadéra keeps an eye on his hydrocarbons minister nephew

Central African Republic
Tamoil boss questioned by Gendarmerie as conflict with government escalates

Central African Republic
Tamoil petrol stations taken over as CAR's fuel crisis continues

Central African Republic
Cameroon's Neptune Oil under pressure in CAR

Central African Republic
Discreet Parisian meeting between Touadéra and Tamoil RCA boss

Central African Republic
Energy minister Piri thwarts Rochefort International's revival plans

Cameroon
Business leaders divided over plan to merge employers' bodies