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Food, energy prices push inflation to 3.0 pc in December

Women short variety of fruits at the Eldoret Air supermarket. [File, Standard]


The country's inflation rate increased to 3.0 per cent in December, up from 2.8 per cent in November, a report by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) shows.

The report, released on Tuesday, December 31, attributes the rise to an increase in prices of essential commodities including food and beverages.

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