{"id":35134,"date":"2026-05-22T12:05:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T10:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=35134"},"modified":"2026-05-22T12:05:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T10:05:21","slug":"moroccos-inflation-rate-rises-to-1-7-in-april","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/moroccos-inflation-rate-rises-to-1-7-in-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco&#8217;s inflation rate rises to 1.7% in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Morocco&#8217;s annual inflation rate, measured by the consumer price index, rose to 1.7% \u200cin April from 0.9% a month earlier, the statistics agency said ths Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Food prices, the main driver of inflation in the country, \u2060rose 0.6% from a year earlier, while non-food prices increased 2.5%, the agency said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Transport prices rose 8.4% following a surge in fuel prices due to the conflict in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Core \u200cinflation, \u2060which excludes more volatile goods and government-controlled prices, was down 0.3% year-on-year and up 0.1% month-on-month.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To cushion the \u2060impact of geopolitical tensions on the domestic market, the government plans to add 20 billion \u2060Dirhams ($ 2.17 billion) to its 2026 budget, including increased subsidies \u2060to keep public transport, cooking gas and electricity prices stable.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":35135,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-35134","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Morocco's annual inflation rate, measured by the consumer price index, rose to 1.7% \u200cin April","published_date":"2026-05-22 12:02:52","news_description":"Morocco's annual inflation rate, measured by the consumer price index, rose to 1.7% \u200cin April","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35134","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\/35134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35136,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35134\/revisions\/35136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=35134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}