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

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Central African Republic
Kerosene shortage leaves airlines scrambling to adjust flight plans

Due to a kerosene shortage in Bangui, Royal Air Maroc has been forced to cancel flights to Bangui and set up a new flight path via Douala on both the outward and return journeys.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Central African Republic
Total and state settle their financial scores

Total Centrafrique, the largest company in the country, had not been paying taxes. At the same time, the government had been racking up debt with the group bought by corporate banker Enguerrand Rochefort.

Central African Republic
Touadéra set up 'task force' to oversee Total Centrafrique sale

The planned sale of the Central African Republic's largest importer [...]

Central African Republic
TotalEnergies poised to tiptoe out of CAR

The French oil major appears to have found a way out of the Central African Republic at last. The country's largest company is selling its assets to Tamoil, a Libyan company that is based in Europe.