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Inflation rates drops to 5pc in April as cooking gas prices soar

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Traders hawk in a street in Eldoret, Uasin Gishu County. [Peter Ochieng, Standard]

The inflation rate for April dropped to five per cent from 5.7 per cent in March, the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) has said.

In the latest release, KNBS attributed the decrease in the inflation rate to the reduction in prices of various commodities among them fuel and food.

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