{"id":14905,"date":"2025-11-10T07:05:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T05:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/egypts-annual-urban-consumer-inflation-quickens-to-12-5-in-october\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:27:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:27:19","slug":"egypts-annual-urban-consumer-inflation-quickens-to-12-5-in-october","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/egypts-annual-urban-consumer-inflation-quickens-to-12-5-in-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt&#8217;s annual urban consumer inflation quickens to 12.5% in October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt&#8217;s annual urban consumer price inflation quickened to 12.5% in October from 11.7% in September, data from statistics agency CAPMAS showed this Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The uptick in inflation comes amid a series of economic reforms and tightening from the Central Bank of Egypt, including recent fuel\u2011price increases and wage adjustments.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While the rate remains well below the 38% peak seen in September\u202f2023, economists warn that elevated inflation continues to strain household budgets and complicate the country\u2019s efforts to stabilise the economy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters\/ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14906,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-14905","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Egypt's annual urban consumer price inflation quickened to 12.5% in October","published_date":"2025-11-10 09:04:22","news_description":"Egypt's annual urban consumer price inflation quickened to 12.5% in October","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14905","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\/14905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19365,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14905\/revisions\/19365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=14905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}