{"id":14212,"date":"2025-10-31T05:22:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T03:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/kenyas-inflation-steady-at-4-6-year-on-year-in-october\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:51","slug":"kenyas-inflation-steady-at-4-6-year-on-year-in-october","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/kenyas-inflation-steady-at-4-6-year-on-year-in-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya&#8217;s inflation steady at 4.6% year-on-year in October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya&#8217;s inflation was 4.6% year-on-year in October, the same as a month earlier, the statistics office said this Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Month-on-month inflation was at 0.2% in October, the same rate as a month earlier, the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The government targets year-on-year inflation of between 2.5% and 7.5% in the medium term.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the central bank cut its benchmark lending rate to 9.25% from 9.50% previously, saying there was room to ease monetary policy further as inflation remains well within its target range.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14213,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-14212","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Kenya's inflation was 4.6% year-on-year in October","published_date":"2025-10-31 07:22:47","news_description":"Kenya's inflation was 4.6% year-on-year in October","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18975,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14212\/revisions\/18975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=14212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}