{"id":34552,"date":"2026-05-15T09:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T07:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=34552"},"modified":"2026-05-15T09:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T07:41:09","slug":"kenya-raises-retail-prices-for-fuel-due-to-iran-conflict","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/kenya-raises-retail-prices-for-fuel-due-to-iran-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya raises retail prices for fuel due to Iran conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Kenya on Thursday hiked its retail fuel prices \u200bby as much as 23.5% after it raised them by 24.2% last month amid squeezed global crude supplies \u200band high energy prices caused \u200bby the Middle East conflict.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In \u2060its statement, the Energy and \u200bPetroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA), which is responsible \u200bfor setting out monthly fuel prices, said that a litre of petrol \u200bwas going to cost 214.25 \u200bKenyan Shillings ($1.66), up from 206.97 Shillings ($1.61).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A litre of \u200cdiesel \u2060will cost 242.92 Kenyan Shillings ($1.88), from 196.63 Shillings ($1.53), while kerosene remains unchanged at 152.78 Shillings ($1.19) for \u200bthe period \u200bbetween \u2060May 15 and June 14 when new prices \u200bwill be announced.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Kenya imports nearly \u200ball \u2060of its fuel products from the Middle East via government-to-government \u2060deals \u200bwith Gulf suppliers.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14477,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-34552","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Kenya imports nearly \u200ball \u2060of its fuel products from the Middle East.","published_date":"","news_description":"Kenya imports nearly \u200ball \u2060of its fuel products from the Middle East.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34552","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\/34552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34553,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34552\/revisions\/34553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=34552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}