{"id":35780,"date":"2026-05-29T10:59:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T08:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=35780"},"modified":"2026-05-29T10:59:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T08:59:22","slug":"kenya-inflation-rises-sharply-for-second-month-driven-by-fuel","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/kenya-inflation-rises-sharply-for-second-month-driven-by-fuel\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya inflation rises sharply for second month, driven by fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">Inflation accelerated to 6.7% year-on-year \u2060from 5.6% in April, the Kenya National \u200bBureau of Statistics said in a report.<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div>May&#8217;s rate \u200bis the highest since January 2024.<\/div>\n<div>The statistics office said the rise in inflation was driven by a rise \u200bin prices of transport (16.5%), food and non-alcoholic \u200bbeverages (9.4%) and housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels (3.4%). \u200cThose \u2060three categories make up 57% of the weight of the inflation basket.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Kenya hiked its fuel prices in April and May in response to \u200bthe surge \u200bin global \u2060energy prices triggered by the United States-iIsraeli war against Iran.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Transport operators have \u200bgone on strike over the hikes.<\/div>\n<div>Inflation \u200bis \u2060now near the top of the government&#8217;s preferred 2.5% and 7.5% range.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The central bank is \u2060due \u200bto announce its next interest rate decision on \u200b<span dir=\"ltr\">June 9<\/span>, after leaving its key rate unchanged at its last meeting \u200bin April.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u2014Reuters\u2014<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":34052,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[],"class_list":["post-35780","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"May's rate \u200bis the highest since January 2024.","published_date":"","news_description":"May's rate \u200bis the highest since January 2024.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35780","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\/35780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35782,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35780\/revisions\/35782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=35780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}