Inflation hits 58-month record

Customers shopping at a local supermarket. FILE PHOTO | NMG

Kenya’s inflation hit a 58-month high in June on soaring food prices, breaching the government’s upper limit ceiling for the first time in nearly five years and further squeezing stagnant earnings of households.

The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics reported on Thursday inflation — a measure of annual changes in the cost of living— climbed to 7.9 percent from 7.1 percent in May.

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