Ethiopia's year-on-year inflation rose to 7.1 percent in December from 5.9 percent in the previous month, the statistics office said on Friday.
The Central Statistics Agency attributed
the jump to higher prices of food and non-food items. Prices for such items as
sugar, vegetables and fruit increased 6.5 percent last month, up from 4.8
percent in November.
Non-food inflation also rose, to 7.8
percent in December from 7.1 percent the previous month, mainly due to an
increase in prices for clothes and khat, a narcotic leaf chewed in the Horn of
Africa nation.
Inflation peaked at 9.1 percent in 2014
but it has since been moving up and down.
Source (Reuters)
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