{"id":33926,"date":"2026-05-07T08:12:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T06:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=33926"},"modified":"2026-05-07T08:12:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T06:12:55","slug":"egypts-annual-inflation-slows-to-14-9-in-april","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/egypts-annual-inflation-slows-to-14-9-in-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt&#8217;s annual inflation slows to 14.9% in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt&#8217;s annual urban consumer \u200binflation rate slowed unexpectedly to 14.9% in April \u200cfrom 15.2% in March, figures from, Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics showed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Month-on-month, prices rose by 1.1% in April, it \u200bsaid. Food and beverage prices fell \u200bby 0.7% on a monthly basis \u2060but rose 6.7% year on year.<\/p>\n<p>A \u200bReuters poll of 14 analysts had \u200bforecast inflation would climb to 15.9% in April, with the analysts saying the war with \u200bIran had triggered an increase in electricity \u200bprices at the start of the month, a \u200cweakening \u2060of the currency and an increase in commodity prices, especially poultry.<\/p>\n<p>Annual inflation has plunged from a record high of \u200b38% in \u200bSeptember 2023, \u2060helped by an $8-billion financial support package signed with the International \u200bMonetary Fund in March 2024.<\/p>\n<p>May \u200binflation \u2060figures may be boosted by an increase in natural gas prices for several energy-intensive \u2060industries \u200bannounced on May 3.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22720,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-33926","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"May \u200binflation \u2060figures may be boosted by an increase in natural gas prices for several energy-intensive \u2060industries \u200bannounced on May 3.","published_date":"","news_description":"May \u200binflation \u2060figures may be boosted by an increase in natural gas prices for several energy-intensive \u2060industries \u200bannounced on May 3.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33926","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":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33928,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33926\/revisions\/33928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=33926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}