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The record marks the fifth consecutive month of rising inflation since October last year.
The March edition of food security update by the World Bank shows a drop in the agricultural, cereal and export price indices by 8, 4 and 11 percent,...
Kenya's annual inflation rate rose to a five-month high of 3.5 per cent in February 2025, from 3.3 per cent in January driven by higher prices of food...
Core inflation, which excludes food, fuel, and transport, stood at 2.0 per cent in January, slightly lower than the 2.2 per cent recorded in December.
Attributing the slight dip to inflation, the Index says the sharp increase in input costs at the end of the year led private sector firms to raise sel...
The ongoing attacks and tensions have severely impacted the flow of goods through the Suez Canal, with the 7-day moving average of container traffic f...
A recent report by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), reveals that the real average wage growth has started to rise again as inflation progr...
Kenya has managed to stabilise its foreign exchange rate, boost hard currency reserves held by the Central Bank and lower inflation this year.
Prices of sugar, maize flour-sifted and fortified maize flour rose by 5.3, 5.1 and 4.9 per cent, respectively, between October 2024 and November 2024.
The 2.7 per cent inflation rate is a substantial drop from 9.6 per cent in September 2022 and the lowest inflation rate since 2007, when President Mwa...
Experts argue that the venture is often appealing because it typically comes with lower or no interest rates compared to formal loans from banks.
Inflation expectations in the next month pointed towards a general decline in prices.
The record is the lowest in the past decade as a similar mark was recorded in January 2013.
The record for July is the lowest in the last four years, with the last record being in August 2020.
This paints a promising prospect for the general cost of living, which has been relatively high in the past two years, majorly hard-hitting developing...
The Kenya shilling also depreciated against the South African Rand and the Tanzanian and Ugandan shillings.
The level is the lowest record in the past four years, as a similar mark was last recorded in June 2020.
A recent Infotrak poll showed the majority of Kenyans — 58 per cent — felt the country was headed in the wrong direction economically
The prices of spinach, kale (sukuma wiki), tomatoes, and Irish potatoes increased by 18.2 per cent, 15 per cent, 14 per cent, and 6.2 per cent, respec...
This worrying trend highlights the desperate measures individuals are taking to survive harsh economic realities.
