High sugar, fuel prices push July inflation to 4.35pc

A man pick sugar at a supermarket in Nairobi. FILE PHOTO | NMG

Increased prices of sugar, petrol, electricity and health put pressure on households in the month of July, pushing the inflation rate to a four-month high of 4.35 per cent.

Data released on Tuesday by Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) showed that the cost of living measure rose in July by 0.07 percentage points, from 4.28 per cent recorded in June.

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