El Nino rains help inflation drop to 20-month low

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Packets of maize flour on display at a supermarket in Nairobi. PHOTO | BONFACE BOGITA | NMG

The destructive El Nino rains have helped slow down the increase in consumer prices to a 20-month low as prices of vegetables and livestock products dropped, according to data from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS).

Inflation—a measure of increase in consumer prices over a 12-month period—has dropped to the levels last seen in April 2022 when it was at 6.47 percent.

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