{"id":49520,"date":"2026-10-30T11:08:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T09:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=49520"},"modified":"2026-10-30T11:08:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T09:08:35","slug":"kenyas-inflation-rises-to-highest-level-in-more-than-three-years","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/kenyas-inflation-rises-to-highest-level-in-more-than-three-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya&#8217;s inflation rises to highest level in more than three years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Kenya&#8217;s inflation rose in October \u200bto its highest level in more \u200cthan three years due to a faster rate of price increases of food items, \u200btransport and housing, the statistics office \u200bsaid on Friday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Inflation was 7.3% year-on-year \u2060in October from 6.8% a month \u200bearlier, the Kenya National Bureau of \u200bStatistics said in a statement.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The last time the year-on-year inflation was at this level was \u200bin July 2023, when it stood \u200bat 7.3%.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Kenya&#8217;s government aims to keep inflation in \u200ca \u2060range of 2.5% to 7.5% in the medium term.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The statistics office said the rise in inflation was driven by \u200ba rise \u200bin prices \u2060of items in food and non-alcoholic beverages (10.2%), transport (17.1%), and housing, \u200bwater, electricity, gas and other \u200bfuels (3.7%) \u2060over the one-year period.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The three categories comprise 57% of the total weight across \u2060the \u200b13 major expenditure categories, \u200bthe statistics office said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12501,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-49520","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Kenya's inflation rose in October \u200b","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49520","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\/49520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49522,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49520\/revisions\/49522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=49520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}