{"id":111812,"date":"2025-09-01T23:04:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T23:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/111812\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T23:04:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T23:04:12","slug":"kenyas-inflation-rises-in-august-driven-by-food-transport-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/111812\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya&#8217;s inflation rises in August, driven by food, transport prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Kenya-s-inflation-rises-in-August-driven-by-food-transport-prices-1998672?gallery=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/82968914.295.jpg\" alt=\"The central bank targets inflation within the 2.5% to 7.5% range in the medium term\" title=\"The central bank targets inflation within the 2.5% to 7.5% range in the medium term\" width=\"295\" height=\"196\" \/> <\/a>The central bank targets inflation within the 2.5% to 7.5% range in the medium term<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\">Kenya&#8217;s inflation (KECPI=ECI), opens new tab rose to 4.5% year-on-year in August from 4.1% the previous month, largely driven by higher prices of food and transport, the statistics office said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Monthly inflation was at 0.3% in August, compared with 0.1% a month earlier, the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The central bank targets inflation within the 2.5% to 7.5% range in the medium term.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in August, the bank cut its benchmark lending rate (KECBIR=ECI), opens new tab by 25 basis points to 9.50%, saying there was room to ease monetary policy further as inflation remains well within target.<\/p>\n<p>Reporting by George Obulutsa and Sfundo Parakozov in Johannesburg; Editing by Aidan Lewis and Tomasz Janowski<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The central bank targets inflation within the 2.5% to 7.5% range in the medium term Kenya&#8217;s inflation (KECPI=ECI),&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-111812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}